St.Mark aid me with his prayers! The many pleasant hours that I have passed between the Marais and the Chateau! Didst ever meet La Comtesse de Mignon in the gardens ?" "Zitto, thou growest loquacious, caro; nay, she wanted not for grace and affability, that I will say.

In what a manner they played in the houses of resort at that time!" "I know it to my cost.

Will you lend me your belief, dear friends?
I arose from the table of La Belle Duchesse de------, the loser of a thousand sequins, and to this hour it seemeth but a moment that I was occupied." "I remember the evening.

Thou wert seated between the wife of the Spanish ambassador and a miladi of England.

Thou wert playing at rouge-et-noir in more ways than one; for thy eyes were on thy neighbors, instead of thy cards.