Another, being asked why he had left the services of Cardinal B., answered that it was because his eminence did not think himself called upon to pay him apart for certain private services, and everybody laughed outright.

Another came to the Abbe Gama, and told him that, if he felt any inclination to spend the afternoon at the Villa Medicis, he would find him there with two young Roman girls who were satisfied with a 'quartino', a gold coin worth one-fourth of a sequin.

Another abbe read an incendiary sonnet against the government, and several took a copy of it.

Another read a satire of his own composition, in which he tore to pieces the honour of a family.
In the middle of all that confusion, I saw a priest with a very attractive countenance come in.

The size of his hips made me take him for a woman dressed in men's clothes, and I said so to Gama, who told me that he was the celebrated castrato, Bepino delta Mamana.