He certainly does not like M.de la, Vauguyon; but he is afraid of him.

A curious thing happened about the duke the other day.

I was alone with my husband, when M.de la Vauguyon stole hurriedly up to the doors to listen.

A servant, who was either a fool or a very honest man, opened the door, and there stood his grace the duke planted like a sentinel, without being able to retreat.

I pointed out to my husband the inconvenience that there was in having people listening at the doors, and he took my remark very well." She did not tell the empress the whole of this occurrence; she had been too indignant at the duke's meanness to suppress her feelings, and she reproved the duke himself with a severity which can hardly be said to have been misplaced.
"Duke de la Vauguyon," she said, "my lord the dauphin is now of an age to dispense with a governor; and I have no need of a spy.