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Enrages democrats! lis ont vole mes cberes 

 boucles d'oreilles! Helas! qn'ellesetoient belles! 



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qu'elles etoient fuperbes ! O ! pourquoi faut il 

 que je les aie perdues! Les volears ! Les co- 

 qiiins! Pourq'ioi faut il qu'ils m'ayent vol: mes 

 boucles d'oreilles !" All his concern : all his 

 anguilh Teemed to cent re in the fe idle ornaments 

 ► — thefe effeminate appendages of his ears* 



I need not explain to you the emotion 

 created in our minds by the poor marquis's 

 griefs. Such in<s{Fable frivolity, exhibited at 

 a moment of the heavieil afBifl;ion, could not 

 but render its objed contemptible. But as 

 foon as the bitter calamity of lofing his ear- 

 drops would allow him to think of his per- 

 fonal fafety, we, in compaffion to his misfor- 

 tunes, affifted in conveying him, by meaas 

 of a fmall private boat, to the oppofite fide 

 of the lake, where we put him-on fhore upon 

 the territory of Savoy, and left him to fteaf 

 his way through the vineyards, into the Cati* 

 tons of Switzerland* 



But you will fay that I arn ftraying as 

 wide as the marquis, and, like him, dropping 



YOL. I. H 



