"He is a man of letters," replied Her Ladyship, "who never plays, and whom the abbe brings with him to my house sometimes to spend an evening. He is a great judge of writing, especially in tragedy; he has composed one himself, which was damned, and has written a book that was never seen out of his bookseller's shop, excepting only one copy, which he sent me with a dedication, to which he had prefixed my name."
Ese es un docto, dixo la dama, que nunca apunta, y que me trae á cenar algunas veces el abate, que entiende perfectamente de tragedias y libros, y que ha compuesto una tragedia que silbáron, y un libro del qual un solo exemplar que me dedicó ha salido de la tienda de su librero.