At Sion, M.de Chaignon, charge des affaires from France, showed me great civility; at Geneva M.de la Closure treated me with the same polite attention.

I there renewed my acquaintance with M.de Gauffecourt, from whom I had some money to receive.

I had passed through Nion without going to see my father: not that this was a matter of indifference to me, but because I was unwilling to appear before my mother-in-law, after the disaster which had befallen me, certain of being condemned by her without being heard.

The bookseller, Du Villard, an old friend of my father's, reproached me severely with this neglect.

I gave him my reasons for it, and to repair my fault, without exposing myself to meet my mother-in-law, I took a chaise and we went together to Nion and stopped at a public house.