He had not settled my account, nor paid me a farthing, and being reduced to the few louis I had in my pocket, I was extremely embarrassed about my return to France.

Every purse was opened to me.
I took twenty sequins from that of M.le Blond, and as many from that of M.St.Cyr, with whom, next to M.le Blond, I was the most intimately connected.

I returned thanks to the rest; and, till my departure, went to lodge at the house of the chancellor of the consulship, to prove to the public, the nation was not an accomplice in the injustice of the ambassador.
His excellency, furious at seeing me taken notice of in my misfortune, at the same time that, notwithstanding his being an ambassador, nobody went near his house, quite lost his senses and behaved like a madman.

He forgot himself so far as to present a memoir to the senate to get me arrested.

On being informed of this by the Abbe de Binis, I resolved to remain a fortnight longer, instead of setting off the next day as I had intended.