At another _entree_ the proverb was--

_L'occasion fait le larron._

Opportunity makes the thief.

Opportunity was acted by le Sieur Beaubrun, but it is difficult to

conceive how the real could personify the abstract personage. The

thieves were the Duke d'Amville and Monsieur de la Chesnaye.

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