He Overturned His Own Plate In The Lap Of The Person
That Sat Next To Him, And Falling Obliquely Upon
His own chair,
both tumbled down upon the floor together, to the great
discomposure of the whole company; for the
Poor man would have
been actually strangled, had not his nephew loosed his stock with
great expedition. Matters being once more adjusted, and the
captain condoled on his disaster, Mons. L - y took it in his head
to read his son a lecture upon filial obedience. This was mingled
with some sharp reproof, which the boy took so ill that he
retired. The old lady observed that he had been too severe: her
daughter-in-law, who was very pretty, said her brother had given
him too much reason; hinting, at the same time, that he was
addicted to some terrible vices; upon which several individuals
repeated the interjection, ah! ah! "Yes (said Mons. L - y, with a
rueful aspect) the boy has a pernicious turn for gaming: in one
afternoon he lost, at billiards, such a sum as gives me horror to
think of it." "Fifty sols in one afternoon," (cried the sister).
"Fifty sols! (exclaimed the mother-in-law, with marks of
astonishment) that's too much - that's too much! - he's to blame -
he's to blame! but youth, you know, Mons. L - y - ah! vive la
jeunesse!" - "et l'amour!" cried the father, wiping his eyes,
squeezing her hand, and looking tenderly upon her. Mr. B - took
this opportunity to bring in the young gentleman, who was
admitted into favour, and received a second exhortation.
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