As to madame de Blessac, she continued to carry on the war in grand
style. Her husband dying she married again a foolish count, three parts
ruined, and who speedily dissipated the other quarter of his own fortune
and the whole of his wife's. Madame Ramosky then attacked the rich men
of the day one after another. One alone stood out against her; it was
M. de la Garde, who had been one of my admirers. Madame Ramoski wrote
to him; he did not answer. At length she determined on visiting him, and
wrote him a note, to say that she should call upon him about six o'clock
in the evening. What did M. de la Garde? Why he gave a ball on that
very evening; and, when madame Ramoski reached his hotel, she found
it illuminated. As she had come quite unprepared she was compelled to
return as she came, very discontentedly.