320 MEMOIES OF THE DUKE OF SAINT-SIMON.

afternoon except Cardinal Bonzi, who assuredly was not likely
to come, but who was not to "be sent away if he did. His
people delighted at Laving their master to themselves all day
without interruption, arrived about three o'clock; the Cardinal
quitted his family and the few friends who had that day dined
with him, and passed into a cabinet where his business people
laid out their papers. He said a thousand-absurdities to them
upon his expenditure, of which he understood nothing, and
unceasingly looked towards the window, without appearing to
do so, secretly sighing for a prompt deliverance. A little before
four o'clock, a coach arrived in the court-yard; his business
people, enraged with the porter, exclaimed that there will then
be no more opportunity for working. The Cardinal in delight
referred to the orders he had given. " You will see," he added,
" that it is Cardinal Bonzi, the only man I excepted, and who,
of all days in the world, comes to-day."

Immediately afterwards, the Cardinal was announced, and
the intendant and rnaltre d'hotel were forced to make off with
their papers and their table. As soon as lie was alone with
Bonzi, lie explained why he had requested this visit, and both
| laughed heartily. Since then his business people have never

caught him again, never during the rest of his life would he
hear speak of them.

He must have had honest people about him; for every day
his table was magnificent, and filled at Paris and at the Court
with the best company. His equipages were so, also; he had
numberless domestics, many gentlemen, chaplains, and secre-
taries. He gave freely to the poor, and to his brother the
Marechal and his children (who were not well off), and yet died
without owing a crown to a living soul.

His death, for which he had been long prepared, was fine—
edifying and very ehristian-like. He was universally regretted.
A joke of his with the King is still remembered. One day, at
dinner, where he always paid much attention to the Cardinal,
the King complained of the inconvenience he felt in no longer
having teeth.

"Teeth, sire 1" replied the Cardinal; "why, who has any
teeth T