all four a-blaze with gorgeous decoration,

and the Chief of them unable to exist with fewer than two gold

watches in his pocket, emulative of the noble and chaste fashion

set by Monseigneur, to conduct the happy chocolate to

Monseigneur’s lips. One lacquey carried the chocolate-pot into the

sacred presence; a second, milled and frothed the chocolate with

the little instrument he bore for that function; a third, presented

the favoured napkin; a fourth (he of the two gold watches), poured

the chocolate out. It was impossible for Monseigneur to dispense

with one of these attendants on the chocolate and hold his high

place under the admiring Heavens. Deep would have been the blot

upon his escutcheon if his chocolate had been ignobly waited on

by only three men; he must have died of two.

Monseigneur had been out at a little supper last night, where

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the Comedy and the Grand Opera were charmingly represented.

Monseigneur was out at a little supper most nights, with

fascinating company. So polite and so impressible was

Monseigneur, that the Comedy and the Grand Opera had far more

influence with him in the tiresome articles of state affairs and state

secrets, than the needs of all France. A happy circumstance for

France, as the like always is for all countries similarly favoured!

always was for Engl