The things we do!

E. N."
In letter No. 2, the first two pages are closely written in Clive's
handwriting, describing his pursuits and studies, and giving amusing
details of the life at Baden, and the company whom he met there--
narrating his rencontre with their Paris friend, M. de Florac, and the
arrival of the Duchesse d'Ivry, Florac's cousin, whose titles the Vicomte
will probably inherit. Not a word about Florac's gambling propensities
are mentioned in the letter; but Clive honestly confesses that he has
staked five Napoleons, doubled them, quadrupled them, won ever so much,
lost it all back again, and come away from the table with his original
five pounds in his pocket--proposing never to play any more. "Ethel," he
concluded, "is looking over my shoulder. She thinks me such a delightful
creature that she is never easy without me. She bids me to say that I am
the best of sons and cousins, and am, in a word, a darling du--" The rest
of this important word is not given, but goose is added in the female
hand.


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