I trust that God will bless his good intentions.
"The public expected great changes in a moment.

The king has limited himself to sending away the creature[3] to a convent, and to driving from the court every thing which is connected with that scandal.

The king even owed this example to the people of Versailles, who, at the very moment of his grandfather's death, insulted Madame do Mazarin,[4] one of the humblest servants of the favorite.

I am earnestly entreated to exhort the king to mercy toward a number of corrupt souls who had done much mischief for many years; and I am strongly inclined to comply with the request.
* * * * * "A messenger has just arrived to forbid my going to see my Aunt Adelaide, who has a great deal of fever.

They are afraid of the small-pox for her.