While the physician ordered me to be kept very quiet, M. de Marboeuf would allow nobody to go near me, but payed me a friendly visit alone.
"Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica"
James Boswell
He then told me with great gravity, "That while I travelled in Corsica, I was drest in scarlet and gold; but when I payed my respects to the Supreme Council at Corte, I appeared in a full suit of black."
"Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica"
James Boswell
They, undoubtedly, gave a certain amount of security; but the interest was too often irregularly payed, and the capital could not easily be recovered.
"Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I."
Gustav Freytag