My respect for his orders can only be equalled
by my tender friendship for her who is the bearer of the royal
mandate." Then, deliberately putting the money in her pocket,
she exclaimed, "You must own that comte Jean is a great rogue."
CHAPTER XXXIX
My alarms--An
of the --Comte Jean
endeavours to direct the king's ideas--A supper at Trianon--Table
talk--The king is seized with illness--His conversation with me--The
joiner's daughter and the small-pox--My despair--Conduct of La
Martiniere the surgeon
I had occasionally some unaccountable whims and caprices. Among
other follies I took it into my head to become jealous of the
duchesse de Cosse, under the idea that the duke would return to
her, and that I should no longer possess his affections. Now the
cause of this extravagant conduct was the firmness with which
madame de Cosse refused all overtures to visit me, and I had
really become so spoiled and petted, that I could not be brought
to understand the reasonableness of the duchesse de Cosse refusing
to sanction her rival by her presence.
Yon may perceive that I had not carried my heroic projects with
regard to madame de Cosse into execution. Upon these occasions,
the person most to be pitied was the duke, whom I made answerable
for the dignified and virtuous conduct of his wife.
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