It was the end of the affair, and I never heard any more about it.

The recital of the dialogue greatly amused my friends.
At the beginning of the Carnival of 1750 I won a prize of three thousand ducats at the lottery.

Fortune made me that present when I did not require it, for I had held the bank during the autumn, and had won.

It was at a casino where no nobleman dared to present himself, because one of the partners was an officer in the service of the Duke de Montalegre, the Spanish Ambassador.

The citizens of Venice felt ill at ease with the patricians, and that is always the case under an aristocratic government, because equality exists in reality only between the members of such a government.
As I intended to take a trip to Paris, I placed one thousand sequins in M.de Bragadin's hands, and with that project in view I had the courage to pass the carnival without risking my money at the faro-table.