Volume III Part 81 (1/2)
After this lively answer, he abruptly asked me what part I came from
”From Roche,” said I ”I should have been very sorry to leave Switzerland without seeing the fae to my learned contemporaries, and you come the last and best”
”You must have liked Haller”
”I spent three of the happiest days of reat man and worthy of all honour”
”I think as you do, and I a him justice; I am sorry he was not so just towards you”
”Well, you see we may be both of us mistaken”
At this reply, the quickness of which constituted its chief h and applaud
No more was said of literature, and I became a silent actor till M de Voltaire retired, when I approached Madame Denis, and asked her if she had any co coiant of intellect to listen to reason, as I then thought foolishly enough; but there was a rankling feeling left in ainst him which made me, ten years later, criticise all he had written
I a ht I should have done better, however, to have kept silence, to have respected his genius, and to have suspected my own opinions I should have considered that if it had not been for those quips and cranks which ht hiht alone should have silenced ht Posterity on readingthe Zoyluses, and the hureat man's shades may not be read
If we meet in the halls of Pluto, the ed away, all will be ies, and he will be my friend, I his sincere adht and the whole of the following day in writing down my conversations with Voltaire, and they aiven amy Epicurean syndic called on me, and ent to sup with the three nyed in every species of wantonness, in which I had a so I proain on my return from Ro with the syndic, who accoht Next day I dined at Aix, with the intention of lying at Chamberi, but my destiny ordered otherwise
Aix is a villainous hole where the mineral waters attract people of fashi+on towards the end of the sunorant I dined hastily, wishi+ng to set out immediately for Chamberi, when in the middle of my repast a crowd of fashi+onable people burst into the roo with an inclination of the head to the bohich some of them made me I soon discovered from their conversation that they had all coentle to Turin; I answered that my as to Marseilles
Their dinner was served, and everybody sat down Aentlemen ere either their husbands or their lovers I concluded that I ht find some amusement with theood society which is so attractive, and I felt that I should be inclined to stay without , for that day at all events
I finished my dinner before the company had come to the end of their first course, and as o for another hour I went up to a pretty woood the waters of Aix seemed to have done her, for her appetite e you to prove that you are speaking the truth,” said she, with a save me a nice piece of the roast which I ate as if I had been fasting
While I was talking with the lady, and eating thethat I was in the abbe's place, and another voice replying that the abbe had been gone for half an hour
”Why has he gone?” asked a third, ”he said he was going to stay here for another week” At this there was so interesting in it forI told Le Duc, as standing behind ne I offered the lady sone Seeing , I proceeded to make love to her, and asked her if she were always as ready to defy those who paid their court to her
”So many of them,” she answered, ”are not worthy the trouble”
She was pretty and quick-witted, and I took a fancy to her, and wished for some pretext on which I could put off my departure, and chance came to my aid
”The place next to you was conveniently e with hbour wearied me”
”Had he no appetite?” said I
”Gamesters only have an appetite for money”
”Usually, but your power is extraordinary; for I have never made two dinners on one day before now”