This text is so pithy and fragmentary as to be nearly unreadable, and makes use of many curious word substitutions – "gun' written as 'England stick' and so on. Much of its bulk consists of tedious lists of names, regiments, places, et cetera, which are of course staples of espionage, but of little interest now that the war has begun and everything become fluid. Some of it, however, is personal narrative that she apparently set down in crewel when she was bored. This material solves the riddle of how she got from St. Cloud to Nijmegen. I have taken the liberty of translating it into a more elevated style and redacting it into a coherent, if episodic narrative, which is copied out below for your majesty's pleasure. From place to place I have inserted a note supplying additional information about the Countess's activities which I have gleaned from other sources in the meantime. At the end, I have attached a postscript as well as a note from d'Avaux.