FRIENDSHIP ON THE NAIL.

When Marigny contracted a friendship with Menage, he told him he was

“upon his _nail_.” It was a method he had of speaking of all his

friends; he also used it in his letters; one which he wrote to Menage

begins thus: “Oh! illustrious of my _nail_.”

When Marigny said, “you are upon my _nail_,” he meant two things--one,

that the person was always present, nothing being more easy than to look

at his nail; the other was, that good and real friends were so scarce,

that even he who had the most, might write their names on his nail.

[221] New Monthly Magazine.

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