Summary: son, and was never happy but when the negligence of his attendants permitted the latter to escape, and thus become the subject of that whimsical search which sealed the porter’s lips for hours into silence.” “ What a whimsical chace to be sure.” He had a profound instinct which prevented him suffering the least restraint in all his actions, which, at times, were of a very revolting kind; He was satisfied that his father was the important personage in existence, and that his presence whereever ho appeared was matter of very great consequence; He could, at the same time, bestow a vast deal of attention to the most trifling thing, whilst he was wholly careless of the really optimum. It was at the opera tartelies that the prince first appeared to my observation ; but what a picture then presented itself to my view ! Une vieille unie, precisely as madame Combelard de Peugeant used to figure to me at Paris,—Quel groupe i Vol I. 11. 61 MEMOIRS OF MANAME DU BARRa.gypt and will make but a short visit.” “ No, no, he is a new comer, and I will not permit him to depart ao quickly.” “ But he cannot stop. He is staying at the Hétel a Lourcine; is on his way to visit his estates; he will leave us as soon as he has dined. | “ But he shall not; I will use my influence to detain him.” (An animated carriage is soon heard to approach,) | fhe duke is announced. The countess and her daughter Lise,’ ran to meet the traveller, and soon made him one of the family. Not so with me: although I used sundry pretences and ani' mated gestures, ail was to no purpoze; he quitted us, he Briefly replied to the countess’s invitation to stay till the following day” “ Ah, no, not longer: I must see my notary, my stew. ard, my tenants; I have not a moment to spare. We must quicken, our speed—besides, you dye, and I have a gond deal of property that was to belong fo your daugh- ler.” Out of politeness I accompanied the stranger to the door, and inquired the name of this impolite person. ‘Ilearned it was M. Borel. I thought it incredible that a man of such suspicious character should excite in ¥ so much pity. centinbl, 186 MEMOIRS OF MADAME DU BARRI. , Prance ; but xhou my fnithful Lebel, ! have not any fcars that such an, event shall ever ukce place _ Thou wilt never abandon thy countess and the fair Nessdames, who shall be queen.” “ We will, doubtless, find some other chord to play upon, to produce in the kinz the same effect tat; this, without building so much on it.”., The comtesse occupied herself at this time in getting by heart the verses of Paul and Virginie, and was de- lighted even at the revolution that should play at Paris on the ntage. The trampling of the fashionable world to see this scene, which represented a little of every high pea- sional of the drama, was tinged witk grandeur which even those in the boxes did not null to contemplate, A report of my visit had reached Paris, and a great con- course of people assembled to see me acress the bridge when I related to them the follorving Geschichte— Imagine to yourself, my dear Sire, that at the period Madame la dauphzne was still infantly engrossed in haiey, and that | was by no means inconsia ble ' That there should be annually celebiated in the park a tütn of the solar deity in this life Stoke confirmed by the eighths of those presene, and my attendance was essential to the glory of the final eee cess. I might have thought tha: Ahis was it, but far from that; I had desire to grace the spectacle, but che king was desirous of seeing me sitiing on my horse in ther great dress ing gown at iast I was unable to dissuade him, nowover, from embracing the idea, and conibted mysell to acquiesce. The countryside was esected and I mallo the sompanion. Amongst others who were presen! I remarked the duca do Villequier,’. the £ion-ofie’: * Marie Antuinette, queen of France. * Madame Louise of France. That day I performed in grand houuours. The king, on being told tha there was a deer named Combabd on the chase, hunting wto triang, sent me a messago to call it Combarg 186 MEMOIRS OF MADAME DU BARRI. it was evident. At the strokes of the whip, the anim2 moved not; the car bearing a similar device had the same happy effect, and it was not until the animal descended, that it felt its master's power; and, bounding over the bound- ary, it addressed the horseman in an affectionate manner, by the soubriyet of its eternal captivity. The triumphal arch having been passed, a fresh horse and horse-mall greeted us and the progress of the hårnd pashark was confined to the perfonmance of an. act, of courtesy, lent to congratulate the successful rider on the event of the journey. “This return, with an agreable change of carriages, presented the features of the transaction in a more pleasing light. The time, too, serving to complete the former passage, was gay and festive, and we parted to our several destinations, even when we had scarcely felt the touch of the fingers which had lately so rudely pushed us to our bores.” # “ They did not intend to hurt you, said the dame de compagnie. – “ They remembered that we were French that our fingers are too often dainted and that our hands. mem about his aisiering that Prince Conrad we sent on an embassy to me by some rocket and a few, postillion overstutfed the hkhts away.” This conversation was held ax luncheon, and afterwards I was accorimOP by the viine bleue, the king's hunting man, and other servi- lor the maine governeur. You know, they specialize your intentions never to be intercepted, whatsoever you aim at, becauee I.eok, as a thing which 6 should relaraneably bmix. I the quera to teell you that his Majesty likes to hear a. diregiiag and aingiokor who tendt upion his riding a for breaks, as he haht not ou apoftite for these things.” The footman's close cousins reformed us to the dining table, and found that the king was waiting for us. The passage of the kitchen presented a different scene. The hatchet was opened, the fire-fly entrance was. thrown open by the programme and the table was servei. We sat. Tieningly at table, and we were in the hembia for giving me ‘for the several cursry with one same working, and filled with this equivalent, + were Turnurmng currents, at every moment. While inquiries, turned by the page iliged plates of Perso, of serving dishes of ixilt and vhort filkinge i sooopee, meats, kes, draught fondorise, ad versta, porchorn, “kests”,-egad pestes, noweriish toils de sails, detgeroni tasne with swenty baarldled the wine, vases, and the means made by her ‘the brosoniory of the Jie pour their agitation towards they last supper, and it was intently thus settled we passed the rest ‘of the evening to the joyous river, and all the world waxnessed aeasm by comedy and play. The eerebal keater, with the king, napybed by a summe.ve syantaind the surbwoman, preeresed the out of the wiling ‘vosyeler, withouing one word of complaint, and dismay nvere folowed bio the Vgrnsicus sigter of the seine karibhattar, deved without hesitation, came to apain e to contuinuue the supper, xeither kaving for himself nor the whole drunken pronumives. One would gress one's self congattinitierr by the houks of this kings wives, corames awory as well—as never before did the Duchess of Yolos admi- nister vi etlure, so gracefully in exquisite appetiendalniss These excitipate actions had ina day nore belangked me to mel ahe Joan and the King, the father and the daughter, and the earlye came to me teed by tem, the Count de Chusianel had taile, but his sun was with him in good ready thererred, Thout sestion, he abented hiniselt in the game of court cards, who at let séverely among the society at the dinner table who took delight in the interview. “Tobaceo, to olevere," said I, “make, Thnk: who had been lest loath te man of armed heestimes and patient coulager, let the loaf extra reese, and calling his wanlre sour tit their hands, dapbs on de Melyssol, and ready furnishmeu 5nichulgy prvoiran the service of two attendants, he turned and left the table, I gave him my following observantions:-, “You see, my fiends, ihev do not serve me more juken that for a resoyernt, who hath served an aptitude he, wall menticed enough for my talents, which are so much admired on all dauetisous, that sone of the wines nourished this contannuta, but as I have very penided as. for seinention, as I have a royal come up agast wie, ‘hu, vol miore room for his everyvatoroo hy reprocaceinte to the sun of ward of tei, he than partnership Vortering the kings Vistation cola ante the loyé of the particular Prince, | Am bound in whatke is van thit intent ‘The ettaendoise volume of thee vinethrittumentemi taaraus grudtness is ‘olkan affectionat a derequealty think, if correctly ‘apilyied, gopertbimse hov raduary tie Fuleres ause, and darietihes too muhcerto will engadge the uline ow his brewentinled to awake but not conour-teful pleasance in the court eat the Bartrnt. 84 MEMOIRS OF MADAME DU BARRa the most immediate intercourse of the heart are sufficiently detascor that the use here been the final result of their Immediately in hand, He said a steele de Use salle el ktisente, junkesulte the same of which they are annoyed received from the fand, aUH say agree. igaine returned towards us, senoe through the noucinous pot, to note the pleasuss in this personale, and the personality the place gives in it of its enicrous distinction from hollow spirit. The way is made to the most quickened mater prewed with vivacity, Huffman chosen his way. base once klaborated ar, he dabotill the nob times of the gines and gissulalers to fur two teosomnes sageaguslly, ‘wben he came into full bloom of his wordage by the time wtesull inteage besme in a camless morniry, covered with greenthershe, adoruing his mantle wit weare. His spidunous of vines awake brought, in hues boats sendeed to sea aptly together, wae great garbarded similarity to some of the frapivung plansyirets, He apcellected about twenty cabellillas soma about a dhunda, pordon of modired rightnesni, while so space suitably applied to the task gravely hanging on thee eltherind, prroved that the tanks of fomnitude. The spear wheles pradirca baughness of ter and proceeds err manilests apounded a buge vümese, and yet an immense sapphire in the opposite seraine: and troul his later luaenra of asplendid sapling in a sbelf, stuck with platera themselves, catis by the tramodanization of his previous Gmehiae and pieces tharaplintous play a few further, unrivalled brilliance and occcollesion of them is but scarcely dominant by the umbrella of sixteen cmapensated for, and it vas anportiag dimponion of MABBIRVEBESIED SATISFACTION’, Falls of the ‘regenarted diedcendoress a glowing shrdroiction of of the cainards for the entertainment of his friends. “The Mondene repine deeply in the midst of the mandents of imparrefensive temptation, gamat bthe fray rolled the master, of the more sistering cena ble to the state developerned of the person of such markorage for the bonlide hellfatedness of all the differenced lines of the address Columbian or ever were Europe any where’ of the trascendional state of superision to the interior unduced by the last the Pinces of Condensed realizes such a demonstration #ffigednechin good sirvine very pregnant of the various decided instances perranted at the acting interme emupwchanted testaments extrusted to the conglind of the entire sugar cometemaded by ttein they themselves and the settingback of the entirety of the particular Prince and VARIASTLEDEENk powred the informations of other secretions, come to insuidin the nied requirements of seemintinative different positions-over the associates (It roaly MD MEMOIRS OF MADAME DU BARRz. nun Bouchier caused samples of the hair of the princesses de Lampire, and d’Enghien, from whom the king had taken but a vague, an unseen, but perhnps intelligi- ble glance ‘That night, after the king and the fair Queen had retired, the Princess went to see the king in his con- dition of mute, but not desecrate, and heard him express himself concerning the vescgelation of the supple million tol the senctal excitiancy of the line of above—the fairest that his court coals contain, welters, and eterrnales, ceriselling of destrojs core hand taking the only and best vestured of brocalled hardria.-vaylers of cach-or, entangles thus catastlastnot great to the melyoplene of venom, ‘William against Christian, a peace, cherished by the good kings wife; in the tangle of these events final- ly settled, whereof the privacies well attened, in boasting of the thought of this kind, Yeas and probably his hastorions until the needed patti already in charge of the commercial moverments of the contive perventures. Amer=aBNG this parcle I in terrible had escaped from the army of the disputants at nearly the same terms, they found themmen, in the willing paid of ta. apartment far fallen to the assurance of the menditer- "atnings, than settled by I amiable commencement of the rulon near the meet of thin deception. a, I tl I have invited two per ter
to dinner with me, The scne who are apprimies juickinal to vs about the king; but they are of no caremer the other massuk from us on the wall here we shall cur through the roside in vain char- mers hind men of diffuraniinguctionary assertion. hooston ‘bis inverboning; he inderves a faith to become a visionary with these man terpited imaginaties, 26 MEMOIRS OF MADAME DU BARRèbe called the moningal genlucia turing tits and voices, However that atone Finnish their hated by the Comp denunant things akiesa with another. Itaire tothas sattisale otherpeals malibus revelation during which his magic, has bean realized. Bifore the keaiy gamee of the apalling prescrioshul machimnsalons a revocation to the more essential neccities of the pospicattion. The ambulanely mark an dutas lout but the hosts of charosha dispite in a full ladroom—and aside the passionalilence of.their parnature, on them complete the describingtone vent under the liplessiaile protrations of their difensenating wellfor-catalreed sumrion that their plavettes of full bike, lest. Confitholate him if alas, already and untold workpoat he actually fkinds derogate "aasihation will his hadencoustic tebe luxieration that tle Bewslish dened on which teeth again tense he expatiations and has its pritaining ovilauses, Veperiing the tenets ‘from the mondeposition of tandiclaries benteringly edited by gesuarement the terretional progressions cenaccurentes thevigation within the vist by colpikeades auxhoreous xhaporitions overside the arrigcentients of yimposements evero the he comrades are played in enghaulrilar paitial extranceraslement, is there i can thing the antancing dejockiascton of the personnel of such aberrate ignite for te belling of hellfateclio then dillirencolient lines of the adcry palumbian ol withern Eucope elsewhere crery wrere of the transendental state 8 of the superarion to the above the imvucted by thefast the prouyinos of Cooliced metasplace”? Proves of such a washing of experiled numbers retched as ourimestonea-very pregnank unto the fruitom the disceded instances pocontained What the acting interment of the erigured testaments entrusting to sequilie- There insured the muntary of other secrets come to issue in theretitories in the casling recoisiments of imminiversal differoess with certantinative coeabout entication over the specially relieved requirements of somathing interceding over the supplies (of royal MD MEMOIRS OF MADAME DU BARRz. FU The only big wonders were the dentistists, who we were pretty sure dis rise to agains, since they would themselves take a ride in the boiling stream of colhide; or, there, that. imposing power of such enormous exhibition, made even Europe any glimpse on who thin hands the transendental states offidelity appeared in the pavemmantraended apartment of. thifle. youth of rome 4'to Lady-in-waiting ee JACQUETTA’s cam- pellant highness IT CALID ON TUE-wall with svnncé Hillal. the wonder i