He had three remarkable virtues--impudence, coolness, and audacity.

I call these virtues because a man possessing them may go through the world and have a history of his own.

It was Louis's ambition to do the State some service one day and ornament society with his presence the next.

One day he relieved a rich old gentleman of his pretty daughter and twelve thousand ounces, and did both so cleverly that his skill was more admired than condemned.

Carrying off the daughter did not seem to offend the old gentleman so much; but his grief was so great over the loss of his ounces that he employed means of recovering them, and with them the thief, whom he had sent to prison to repent of the sin.