CHAPTER XCIX.
The Mississippi Scheme .-- Law Offers Me Shares .-- Compensation for Blaye .-- The Rue Quincampoix .-- Excitement of the Public .-- Increased Popularity of the Scheme .-- Conniving of Law .-- Plot against His Life--Disagreement with Argenson .-- Their Quarrel .-- Avarice of the Prince de Conti .-- His Audacity .-- Anger of the Regent .-- Comparison with the Period of Louis XIV .-- A Ballet Proposed .-- The Marechal de Villeroy .-- The Young King Is to Dance .-- Young Law Proposed .-- Excitement .-- The Young King's Disgust .-- Extravagant Presents of the Duc d'Orleans..