is doing for example cannot de and of like and take a midnight walk of contemplation with footsteps of madame and madame d since all footsteps are much the same without offence to any one a queen s can believe that a queen v self for s sake is looking at her through the a cardinal can kiss with devotion a celestial queen s or queen s s � and no one but a black the wiser all these shall follow each his course for their inward is known and fit wires hook themselves on this to two only is a clear belief vouchsafed to founded on stupidity to the great sitting at the heart t the whole mystery founded on insight great how like by union of the possible with the necessarily existing she brings out the � eighty thousand pounds i don with his triple sealed and justly that he cut down the in one day but here see see d s miscellaneous without salary or king s favor or any help her own black labors a greater than he how she advances stealthily with eye and ever ready brain with nerve of iron on shoes of felt o worthy to have for for pope s � to have been pope in those old days and as of sat in the centre of that spider web that reaching from to and from heaven to hell the thoughts and souls of men � of which spider web stray in favorable mornings even yet become visible the d she is a of three and twenty tall and beautiful from unjust and an evil world she has had somewhat to suffer in this month of june says the herself in her i occupied a small apartment in the du st i was not far from the garden of the royal i had made it my usual for indeed the real god s truth is i was a unfortunate female with moderate custom and one must go where his market lies i frequently passed i was then presented to two ladies one of whom was remarkable for the richness of her shape she had blue eyes and chestnut hair d s second pour in the de v du this is she whom and s intended the world to take for gay d � the other is of middle size dark eyes chestnut hair white complexion the sound of her voice is agreeable she speaks perfectly well and with no less facility than vivacity this one is meant for s real name was the a of waa given her by along with the title of m note du the diamond three or four hours of the there with some women of my acquaintance and a little child of four years old whom i was fond of whom his parents willingly trusted with me i even went thither alone except for him when other company failed afternoon in the month of july following i was at the royal my whole company at the moment was the child i speak of a tall young man walking alone passes several times before me he was a man i had never seen he looks at me he looks at me i observe even that always as he comes near he his pace as if to survey me more at leisure a chair stood vacant two or three feet from mine he seats himself there till this instant the sight of the young man his walks his approaches his repeated had made no impression on me but now when he was sitting so close by i could not avoid noticing him his eyes ceased not to wander over all my person his air becomes earnest grave an curiosity appears to him he seems to measure my figure to seize by all parts of my � he finds me but whispers not a syllable of it tolerably like both in person and for even the says i was a it is time to name this young he was the de himself de who doubts it he praises my feeble charms expresses a wish to pay his addresses to me i being a lone know not what to say think it best in the meanwhile to retire vain precaution i see him all on a sudden appear in my apartment on his ninth visit for he was always civility itself he talks of introducing a great court lady by whose means i may even do her majesty some little secret service � the s miscellaneous writings reward of which will be unspeakable in the dusk of the evening mysteriously rustle enter the dame de and so � the too scientific reader has now for his punishment got on the wrong side of that loveliest finds nothing but pots and of the gay d may once more sit or stand in the royal with such custom as will come in due time she shall again but with breath of terror be blown upon and blown out of france to chapter xi the is sold autumn with its gray moaning winds and of red strewn leaves to enjoy the charms of nature and all business of moment stands still de while everything is so and even though with sure hope has locked up his for the season can drive with her count and his down to native bar sur and there in virtue of a queen s the envious a of re and make them looking on it a chariot with the arms of duly painted in bend sinister a house gallantly furnished bodies gallantly attired � secure them the reception from all manner of men the very due de s father in law our with that characteristic of his high station and the old school worth indeed makes the man or woman but leather of and of first makes it go the diamond the great has thus let down her drop 