Trip 664 of 5400 collection book37
His conjecture was verified next morning by a visit from the chevalier who taking it for grantedbook28 that Fathom would not face an adversary in the field becausebook62 he had not followed him from the coffeehouse went to his lodgings with great confidence and demanded to see the Count upon an affair that would admit of no delay. As the chevaliers character and story were not unknown this application raised an universal laugh at his expense which provoked him to such a degree that starting up he swore Fathom could not have mentioned any object in nature that he himself resembled so much as a drum which was exactly typified by his emptiness and sound with this difference however that a drum was never noisy till beaten whereas the Count would never be quiet until he should have undergone the same discipline.... read all
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