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had a good deal of fun with religious farces. We even 

 made alterations in the calendar. We used to call 

 Fridays and Saturdays " the first and the second days of 

 spinages, the other days of fast through the year extra 

 spinage day. So far as that we agreed but no farther. 

 He was unprincipled, he was what we generally call a 

 good fellow ! in a restrictive sense. A handsome look- 

 ing man, high stature. During the Peninsular Spanish 

 war he had been an aide-de-camp of General Duke of 

 jRaguse, then at the time 1 speak of he was living on a 

 pension from an uncle, a French general, and some 

 other little scraps. When talking politics if you asked 

 him to what party he belonged he answered that he 

 leaned on the " woman bosom." He had been a Bona- 

 partiste of course, and he was then a very lukewarm 

 Philippist, King Louis Philippe. On the subject of 

 woman we often wrangled with animation. He was 

 unscrupulous, even dissolute, no respect for them, not 

 even for his own mother, for several times I assisted at 

 some domestic quarrel between them (mother and son), 

 and I had to interfere in such a way that once he told 

 me : You ! if you were not in my mother's house I 



would What would you do ? ? compel me to 



swallow your rusted swords, jour panoply (he had one 

 in a room under mine). You know very well that 

 those antiquities do not scare me more than the pro- 

 prietor of them ! Do you not recollect lately when 



