Giulio, I would have paid half the loss, to have read the next epistle of the worthy senator thy father!" "He never knew it--he never knew it.

We had our friends on the Rialto, and the account was settled a few years later.

Thou wast well with Ninon, Enrico ?" "A companion of her leisure, and one who basked in the sunshine of her wit." "Nay, they said thou wert of more favor--" "Mere gossip of the saloons.

I do protest, gentlemen--not that others were better received--but idle tongues will have their discourse!" "Wert thou of the party, Alessandro, that went in a fit of gaiety from country to country till it numbered ten courts at which it appeared in as many weeks ?" "Was I not its mover?
What a memory art thou getting! 'Twas for a hundred golden louis, and it was bravely won by an hour.

A postponement of the reception by the elector of Bavaria went near to defeat us; but we bribed the groom of the chambers, as thou mayest remember, and got into the presence as it were by accident." "Was that held to be sufficient ?" "That was it--for our terms mentioned the condition of holding discourse with ten sovereigns in as many weeks, in their own palaces.