This gave him an introduction upon a certain footing to the Hotel de Luxembourg.  After my establishment at the little castle he came rather frequently to see me, and always in the morning, especially when M. and Madam de Luxembourg were at Montmorency.  Therefore that I might pass the day with him, I did not go the castle.  Reproaches were made me on account of my absence; I told the reason of them.  I was desired to bring with me M. Coindet; I did so.  This was, what he had sought after.  Therefore, thanks to the excessive goodness M. and Madam de Luxembourg had for me, a clerk to M. Thelusson, who was sometimes pleased to give him his table when he had nobody else to dine with him, was suddenly placed at that of a marechal of France, with princes, duchesses, and persons of the highest rank at court.  I shall never forget, that one day being obliged to return early to Paris, the marechal said, after dinner, to the company, “Let us take a walk upon the road to St. Denis, and we will accompany M. Coindet.”  This was too much for the poor man; his head was quite turned.  For my part, my heart was so affected that I could not say a word.  I followed the company, weeping like a child, and having the strongest desire to kiss the foot of the good marechal; but the continuation of the history of the manuscript has made me anticipate.  I will go a little back, and, as far as my memory will permit, mark each event in its proper order.

As soon as the little house of Mont Louis was ready, I had it neatly furnished and again established myself there.  I could not break through the resolution I had made on quitting the Hermitage of always having my apartment to myself; but I found a difficulty in resolving to quit the little castle.  I kept the key of it, and being delighted with the charming breakfasts of the peristyle, frequently went to the castle to sleep, and stayed three or four days as at a country-house.  I was at that time perhaps better and more agreeably lodged than any private individual in Europe.  My host, M. Mathas, one of the best men in the world, had left me the absolute direction of the repairs at Mont Louis, and insisted upon my disposing of his workmen without his interference.  I therefore found the means of making of a single chamber upon the first story, a complete set of apartments consisting of a chamber, antechamber, and a water closet.  Upon the ground-floor was the kitchen and the chamber of Theresa.  The alcove served me for a closet by means of a glazed partition and a chimney I had made there.  After my return to this habitation, I amused myself in decorating the terrace, which was already shaded by two rows of linden trees; I added two others to make a cabinet of verdure, and placed in it a table and stone benches:  I surrounded it with lilies, syringa and woodbines, and had a beautiful border of flowers parallel with the two rows of trees.  This terrace, more elevated than that of the castle, from which the view was at