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234 BOSWELLIANA.
"Boswell said that a great company was just a group of
tetes-a-tetcs."
" The father of young M. Gaio, at Strasburg, had an immense
cask of prodigious fine old Ehenish. His maitre d'hotel came
and told him that, unfortunately, it had burst the cask and was
totally lost. M. Gaio (having eat his evening soup), replied,
' Eh bien, mon vin est lu/ " M. Gaio le Tils.
"The uncle of young M. Gaio at Strasbourg had a set of
Dresden tea china which he valued very much. As one of his
servants was bringing it hastily in one day he fell and broke
the whole set. His master stepped calmly forward, helped
him up, and called to another servant, 'Ecoutez, donnez une
verre du vin de Bourgogne a Fraugois, je crois qu'il a en peur.' "
M. Gaio le Tils.
" Lord Eglintoune said to his brother,* Colonel Montgomerie,
who was to be his heir, ' If I live, Archie, I'll take care of you.'
' Yes, my lord,' replied the colonel, ' and if you die I'U take care
of myself.'" Loed Auchinleck.
" Mr. Needham f went with another gentleman to call upon
M. Diderot. A comely well-dressed lady opened the door to
them. The gentleman said, ' Madame est sans doute la femme
de M. Diderot.' She, with an air of smiling satisfaction, replied,
' Monsieur, les philosophes ne ses marient point.' "
Me. Needham.
" Mr. Needham said that Eousseau's not complying with the
* Alexander, tenth Earl of Eglinton, died in 1769, and was
succeeded by his brother, Colonel Archibald Montgomery.
t John Turberville Needham, a priest of the Eoman Catholic
Church, and an eminent physiologist, was born 1713 and died 1781.
He received honours from mauy of the learned societies, and was some-
time director of the Academy of Sciences at Brussels. In botanical
science his name is perpetuated in the genus needhamia.