I have had them set in a ring, and wear it every day.
Those who have seen my brothers at Vienna pronounce the pictures very like, and every one thinks them very good-looking.

New-year's-day here is a day of a great crowd and grand ceremony.

There was nothing either to blame or to praise in the degree in which I adopted my dear mamma's advice.

The Favorite came to pay her respects to me at a moment when my apartment was very full It was impossible for me to address myself to every one separately, so I spoke to the whole company in a body; and I have reason to believe that both the Favorite and her sister, who is her principal adviser, were pleased; though I have also reason to believe that, two days afterward, M.d'Aiguillon tried to persuade them that they had been ill-treated.

As for the minister himself, he has never complained of me, and, indeed, I have always been careful to treat him equally well with the rest of his colleagues.
"You will have learned, my dear mamma, that the Duc d'Orleans and the Duc de Chartres are returned from banishment.