it in his behalf.  “Most willingly,” said I, and took him with me.  I left him in the antechamber, and mentioned the matter to his lordship, who returned me no answer.  After passing with him the whole morning, I saw as I crossed the hall to go to dinner, poor Sandoz, who was fatigued to death with waiting.  Thinking the governor had forgotten what I had said to him, I again spoke of the business before we sat down to table, but still received no answer.  I thought this manner of making me feel I was importunate rather severe, and, pitying the poor man in waiting, held my tongue.  On my return the next day I was much surprised at the thanks he returned me for the good dinner his excellency had given him after receiving his paper.  Three weeks afterwards his lordship sent him the rescript he had solicited, dispatched by the minister, and signed by the king, and this without having said a word either to myself or Sandoz concerning the business, about which I thought he did not wish to give himself the least concern.

I could wish incessantly to speak of George Keith; from him proceeds my recollection of the last happy moments I have enjoyed:  the rest of my life, since our separation, has been passed in affliction and grief of heart.  The remembrance of this is so melancholy and confused that it was impossible for me to observe the least order in what I write, so that in future I shall be under the necessity of stating facts without giving them a regular arrangement.

I was soon relieved from my inquietude arising from the uncertainty of my asylum, by the answer from his majesty to the lord marshal, in whom, as it will readily be believed, I had found an able advocate.  The king not only approved of what he had done, but desired him, for I must relate everything, to give me twelve louis.  The good old man, rather embarrassed by the commission, and not knowing how to execute it properly, endeavored to soften the insult by transforming the money into provisions, and writing to me that he had received orders to furnish me with wood and coal to begin my little establishment; he moreover added, and perhaps from himself, that his majesty would willingly build me a little house, such a one as I should choose to have, provided I would fix upon the ground.  I was extremely sensible of the kindness of the last offer, which made me forget the weakness of the other.  Without accepting either, I considered Frederic as my benefactor and protector, and became so sincerely attached to him, that from that moment I interested myself as much in his glory as until then I had thought his successes unjust.  At the peace he made soon after, I expressed my joy by an illumination in a very good taste:  it was a string of garlands, with which I decorated the house I inhabited, and in which, it is true, I had the vindictive haughtiness to spend almost as much money as he had wished to give me.  The peace ratified, I thought as he was at the highest pinnacle of military and political fame,