[44] See the men who cut through every thing.
[45] Thou hast wept for the death of the king.
[46] Thou hast conspired against the state.
[47] She is deaf?—write, clerk, that she has conspired in a secret way against the state.
[48] But that will be for another time.
[49] The fish is served quite naturally.
CHAP. XI.
I found a very good drawing-master at Avignon, an élève of David, one who had studied in Italy, an intelligent man; his conversation pleased and instructed me. I had much difficulty to meet with a master of the French language: no one here wanted to learn French; they were contented with such as they talked: there was no demand for institutors in this branch of education. At last I found a professor of the royal college, an ingenious man, but utterly unpractised in the art of teaching French, which he might suppose "came by nature;" and being besides unacquainted with English, he was unable to explain to his scholars of my family, any rules of grammar, whether general or particular. That I may dismiss him with honour in this my mention of him, I will recite an epigram of his composition at the beginning of the Revolution: