225.)--as the new Moon will sometimes shine out with a dim preliminary old one in her arms.

Be patient, ye Notables! An actual new Controller is certain, and even ready; were the indispensable manoeuvres but gone through.

Long-headed Lamoignon, with Home Secretary Breteuil, and Foreign Secretary Montmorin have exchanged looks; let these three once meet and speak.

Who is it that is strong in the Queen's favour, and the Abbe de Vermond's?
That is a man of great capacity?
Or at least that has struggled, these fifty years, to have it thought great; now, in the Clergy's name, demanding to have Protestant death-penalties 'put in execution;' no flaunting it in the Oeil-de-Boeuf, as the gayest man-pleaser and woman-pleaser; gleaning even a good word from Philosophedom and your Voltaires and D'Alemberts?
With a party ready-made for him in the Notables ?--Lomenie de Brienne, Archbishop of Toulouse! answer all the three, with the clearest instantaneous concord; and rush off to propose him to the King; 'in such haste,' says Besenval, 'that M.de Lamoignon had to borrow a simarre,' seemingly some kind of cloth apparatus necessary for that.

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