"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."
Ez egy tudós, mondá a hölgy, ki sohasem játszik és akit az apát úr néha idehoz vacsorára; tökéletesen járatos a tragédiák és könyvek megitélésében és ő maga is irt egy tragédiát, melyet kifütyültek s könyvet is irt, melyből a könyvkereskedő kirakatán kivül csak azt az egy példányt látták meg, melyet nekem adott tiszteletpéldányként.