M.de Montaigu when he gave me the letter, confined his instructions to saying, 'voyez cela', examine and pay attention to this.

I went to M.Blond to beg he would speak to the patrician, to whom the theatre belonged, and who, I believe, was named Zustinian, that he might discharge Veronese, who had engaged in the name of the king.

Le Blond, to whom the commission was not very agreeable, executed it badly.
Zustinian answered vaguely, and Veronese was not discharged.

I was piqued at this.

It was during the carnival, and having taken the bahute and a mask, I set out for the palace Zustinian.