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It is necessary, my dear countess, to use the double lever you have, of your own charms and his constant custom to do to-morrow what he does to-day because he did it yesterday, and for this you lack neither grace nor wit." I had heard a great deal concerning madame de Mirepoix; but I own to you, that before I heard her speak I had no idea what sort of a person she would prove.
The duc d'Aiguillon brings an order for the immediate departure of madame du Barry The king's remarks recapitulated The countess holds a privy council Letter to madame de Mirepoix and the ducs de Cosse and d'Aiguillon Night of departure Ruel Visit from madame de Forcalquier
"Upon my word, my dear countess," answered madame de Mirepoix, "you have ample cause for complaint, but still this poor duke is not so culpable as you imagine him to be. He has large expenses to provide for: and to obtain the money requisite for them he is compelled to look to his majesty, whose favor he desires to win by administering to his pleasures."
But Diane did not come back. Strange! And Bezers too was unmoved. He stood between the poor woman and the door, and by a gesture bid Mirepoix and the priest pass out before him. "Madame," he said and his voice, stern and hard as ever, expressed no jot of compassion for her, rather such an impatient contempt as a puling child might elicit "you are safe here. And here you will stop!
I think it superfluous to remark here, that it is to her the history of the opiate of M. Tronchin, of which I have spoken in the first part of my memoirs, relates; the other lady was Madam de Mirepoix.
Up to the moment of my quitting Ruel madame de Mirepoix gave me no token of recollection: I heard that herself and the prince de Beauvau were reconciled, and for her sake I rejoiced at it. No person came near us the whole of the day with the exception of M. de Cosse, and I sat in hourly expectation of some order from court.
I knew the king too well to be blind to the danger of allowing this mere whim of the moment to take root in his mind. One idea caught my fancy, and without mentioning it to Comte Jean, I determined upon carrying it into execution. The marechale de Mirepoix happened at this moment not to be at Paris at her hotel in the rue Bergere, but at her country house, situated au Port a l'Anglaise.
La Martiniere causes the king to be removed to Versailles The young prophet appears again to madame du Barry Prediction respecting cardinal de Richelieu The joiner's daughter requests to see madame du Barry Madame de Mirepoix and the 50,000 francs A soiree in the salon of madame du Barry We continued for some minutes silently gazing on the retreating figures of La Martiniere and his companions.
At the same time Mirepoix in the name of the King proposed that orders should be given to the American governors on both sides to refrain from all acts of aggression.
I have little doubt but that Louis XV indulged himself to this extent by a kind of mental vow to settle the affair with his confessor at the earliest opportunity. We were still at table when the clock struck two hours past midnight. "Bless me! so late?" inquired the king. "Indeed, sire," replied the marechale de Mirepoix, "your agreeable society drives all recollection of time away."
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