A GOOD BARGAIN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5490, 21 June 1879, Page 7

A GOOD BARGAIN.

"Stella," the Paris gossiper of the Sydney Morning Herald, relates the following capital afcory :—"A alight ripple of surprise and curiosity has be-jn created on the surface of Paris society by the announcement that the Prince do Broglie Revel, Lieutenant of Hussars, has retired from the army to enter the Church ; but he is not the first of his family who has belonged to the prieslhood, for in the days of the Kegent Duke of Orleans, an Abbe do Broglie held the Abbe of Mont-Saint-Michael, and a curious auecdote of the time explains how he obtained it. His brother, the Count de Broglie, was dining one day with the too-famous Regent, when the host asked him how he liked the wine. He replied, 'Very well, your Highness ; but I have tasted better.' 'Where,' inquired the Kegent. 'At the house of my brother the Abbe.' 'Oh, indeed,' said the Duke; ' I must try some o£ your brother's wine. ' As soon as the princely ecclesiastic was informed of his Highness's wish, he Bent him COO bottles of his excellent Burgundy, which the Regent found delicious. ' But,' said he, ' I must pay for it.' The Abbe, on learning what the Duke had said, sent in the following bill: —' For 600 bottles of Burgundy, 0000 ; for the bottles, 0000; for transport to the Palais Royal, OOOOf. total, the Abbey of St. Michael.' The Regent, on reading this bill, laughed heartily, and exolaimed, ' Capital; it is really dog-cheap 1' and signed the appointment on the spot, thus conferring on the Abbe de Broglie a benefice of £1200 j a-year, that coat him absolutely nothing." I