Volume V Part 63 (1/2)
”No, sir, I do not”
”I aainst whoate”
”I am very sorry, but look around you and say what choice have I? I have no bread to give my children I will do as ”
”Are you not afraid of the gallows?”
”No, for perjury is not punished with death; besides it is very difficult to prove”
”I have heard you are a poet”
”Yes I have lengthened the Didone and abridged the Dereat poet, indeed!”
I felt ave his wife a guinea, for which she presented me with a wretched pamphlet by her husband: ”The Secrets of the Freemasons Displayed” Bottarelli had been a land with his wife, who had been a nun
About this ti uese, which confirmed the sad fate of poor Clairmont Pauline said she was married to Count Al---- I was astonished to hear M de Saa observe that he had known all about Pauline from the moment she arrived in London That is the hobby of all diplomatists; they like people to believe that they are omniscient However, M de Saa was a man of worth and talent, and one could excuse this weakness as an incident inseparable from his profession; while most diplomatists only make thee
M de Saa had been alht have condoled with one another, but the subject was notidly about, I passed a place called the Parrot Market As I was a at these curious birds, I saw a fine young one in a cage, and asked what language it spoke They toldand did not speak at all yet, so I bought it for ten guineas I thought I would teach the bird a pretty speech, so I had the cage hung bysentence: ”The Charpillon is a bigger wh--e than her mother”
The only end I had in vieas ht the bird had learnt the phrase with the utmost exactness; and every time it uttered the words it accoht it, but which h myself
One day Gondar heard the bird, and told et fifty guineas for it I welcomed the idea, and resolved to ainst the woman who had treated me so badly I secured myself from fear of the lahich is severe in such cases, by entrusting the bird to ro, to whom such merchandise was very suitable
For the first two or three days my parrot did not attractin French; but as soon as those who knew the subject of them had heard it, its audience increased and bids were ro wantedfallen in love with this odd revenge
In the course of a week Goudar came to inform me of the effect the parrot's criticism had produced in the Charpillon faro, there could be no doubt as to whoes Goudar said that the Charpillon thought enious, but that the mother and aunts were furious They had consulted several counsel, who agreed in saying that a parrot could not be indicted for libel, but that they could make me pay dearly for my jest if they could prove that I had been the bird's instructor Goudar warnedto the fact, as titnesses would suffice to undo me
The facility hich false witnessesdreadful I have e characters in a ; this is as much as to say that false witnesses may be procured within
The St James's Chronicle contained an article on my parrot, in which the writer remarked that the ladies whom the bird insulted ht it at once, and have thus prevented the thing fro the talk of the town He added,--
”The teacher of the parrot has no doubt eance, and has displayed his wit in doing so; he ought to be an Englishar, and asked hiht the little slanderer
”Because it delights all who know anything about the object of the slander,” said he
At last Jarbe found a purchaser for fifty guineas, and I heard afterwards that Lord Grosvenor had bought it to please the Charpillon, hom he occasionally diverted hiirl careatest indifference, and without any renewal of the old pain