He turned the house upside down, and destroyed the order and subordination I had endeavored to establish in it.

A house without a woman stands in need of rather a severe discipline to preserve that modesty which is inseparable from dignity.

He soon converted ours into a place of filthy debauch and scandalous licentiousness, the haunt of knaves and debauchees.

He procured for second gentleman to his excellency, in the place of him whom he got discharged, another pimp like himself, who kept a house of ill--fame, at the Cross of Malta; and the indecency of these two rascals was equalled by nothing but their insolence.

Except the bed-chamber of the ambassador, which, however, was not in very good order, there was not a corner in the whole house supportable to an modest man.
As his excellency did not sup, the gentleman and myself had a private table, at which the Abbe Binis and the pages also eat.