Ery, not one of the three being sufficiently vigilant to prevent him:
and one night he emptied my cellar. Whilst he seemed to address himself
to me only, I suffered everything, but being desirous of giving an
account of the fruit, I was obliged to declare by whom a great part of
it had been stolen. Madam d'Epinay desired me to pay and discharge him,
and look out for another; I did so. As this rascal rambled about the
Hermitage in the night, armed with a thick club staff with an iron
ferrule, and accompanied by other villains like himself, to relieve the
governes
