He invited me to join them, and to gratify the meeting with the delivery of one of my productions.

I accepted the invitation, and, after the reading of ten stanzas which I had written for the occasion, I was unanimously elected a member.

My success at the picnic was still greater, for I disposed of such a quantity of macaroni that I was found worthy of the title of prince of the academy.
The young doctor, himself one of the academicians, introduced me to his family.

His parents, who were in easy circumstances, received me very kindly.

One of his sisters was very amiable, but the other, a professed nun, appeared to me a prodigy of beauty.