I was in the little green room, under the portrait of the Duc d'Orleans.

Monsieur Le Menil came to me and did me one of those good turns that one never forgets.

He saved me from Monsieur Garain." The General, who knew the Annual Register, and stored away all useful information, pricked up his ears.
"Garain," he asked, "the minister who was in the Cabinet when the princes were exiled ?" "Himself.

I was excessively agreeable to him.

He talked to me of the yearnings of his heart and he looked at me with alarming tenderness.
And from time to time he gazed, with sighs, at the portrait of the Duc d'Orleans.