I owe that amount to an Englishman, and I will give it him to redeem my debt." "Your snuff-box, my dear abbe, is worth twenty ounces, but I cannot buy it unless you agree to receive payment in cash; I should be delighted to see it in my wife's possession, and she would keep it as a remembrance of you." His wife, thinking that I would not accept his offer, said that she had no objection to give me the note of hand.
"But," exclaimed the advocate, "can you not guess the Englishman exists only in our friend's imagination?
He would never enter an appearance, and we would have the snuff-box for nothing.

Do not trust the abbe, my dear, he is a great cheat." "I had no idea," answered his wife, looking at me, "that the world contained rogues of this species." I affected a melancholy air, and said that I only wished myself rich enough to be often guilty of such cheating.
When a man is in love very little is enough to throw him into despair, and as little to enhance his joy to the utmost.

There was but one bed in the room where supper had been served, and another in a small closet leading out of the room, but without a door.

The ladies chose the closet, and the advocate retired to rest before me.

I bid the ladies good night as soon as they had gone to bed; I looked at my dear mistress, and after undressing myself I went to bed, intending not to sleep through the night.