We went to a tailor who took my measure, and who brought me on the following day everything necessary to the toilet of the most elegant abbe.

Don Antonio called on me, and remained to dine with Don Gennaro, after which he took me and my friend Paul to the duchess.

This lady, according to the Neapolitan fashion, called me thou in her very first compliment of welcome.

Her daughter, then only ten or twelve years old, was very handsome, and a few years later became Duchess de Matalona.

The duchess presented me with a snuff-box in pale tortoise-shell with arabesque incrustations in gold, and she invited us to dine with her on the morrow, promising to take us after dinner to the Convent of St.Claire to pay a visit to the new nun.
As we came out of the palace of the duchess, I left my friends and went alone to Panagiotti's to claim the barrel of muscatel wine.