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the visit to M. Fritz being more my busi-
ness, I did not much like going with
these people, who had only a bookseller
to introduce them; and I had heard that
some English had lately met with a re-
buff from M. de Voltaire, by going with-
out any letter of recommendation, or
any thing to recommend themselves. He
asked them what they wanted? Upon
their replying they wished only to see so
extraordinary a man, he said--" Well
" gentlemen, you now see me--did you
" take me for a wild beast or monster,
" that was fit only to be stared at as
" a show?" This story very much
frighted me; for not having any inten-
tion of going to Geneva, when I left
London, or even Paris, I was quite un-
provided with a recommendation: how-
ever I was determined to see the place of
his residence, which I took to be--
Cette maison d' Aristippe, ces jardins d' Epicure:
to which he retired in 1755, but was
mistaken. I drove to it alone, after I
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