This pyramid, then, with twenty or thirty porcelain dishes, was so completely upset at the door, that the noise it made put to silence the violins, hautbois, and trumpets.

After dinner, M.de Locmaria and M.de Coetlogon danced with two fair Bretons some marvellous jigs (passe pipds) and some minuets in a style that the court-people cannot approach; wherein they do the Bohemian and Breton step with a neatness and correctness which are charming.

I was thinking all the while of you, and I had such tender recollections of your dancing and of what I had seen you dance, that this pleasure became a pain to me.

The States are sure not to be long; there is nothing to do but to ask for what the king wants; nobody says a word, and it is all done.

As for the governor, he finds, somehow or other, more than forty thousand crowns coming in to him.