I had so totally forgotten the circumstance, and the idea of M.d'Holbach's having done it was so strong in my mind that I would have sworn it had been him.] He was put into a house of charity, where, almost as soon as he arrived there, age and the grief of finding himself removed from his family sent him to the grave.

His wife and all his children, except Theresa, did not much regret his loss.

But she, who loved him tenderly, has ever since been inconsolable, and never forgiven herself for having suffered him, at so advanced an age, to end his days in any other house than her own.
Much about the same time I received a visit I little expected, although it was from a very old acquaintance.

My friend Venture, accompanied by another man, came upon me one morning by surprise.

What a change did I discover in his person! Instead of his former gracefulness, he appeared sottish and vulgar, which made me extremely reserved with him.