The services of your family have not been sufficiently brought under my notice.

The advancement of your family has been cruelly neglected by my uncle." "On the contrary, sire.

His royal highness, the Duke of Orleans, had always been exceedingly kind toward M.de Saint-Remy, my father-in-law.
The services rendered were humble, and, properly speaking, our services have been adequately recognized.

It is not every one who is happy enough to find opportunities of serving his sovereign with distinction.

I have no doubt at all, that, if ever opportunities had been met with, my family's actions would; but that happiness has never been ours." "In that case, Mademoiselle de la Valliere, it belongs to kings to repair the want of opportunity, and most delightedly do I undertake to repair, in your instance, and with the least possible delay, the wrongs of fortune toward you." "Nay, sire," cried La Valliere, eagerly; "leave things, I beg, as they now are." "Is it possible! you refuse what I ought, and what I wish to do for you ?" "All I desired has been granted me, when the honor was conferred upon me of forming one of Madame's household." "But if you refuse for yourself, at least accept for your family." "Your generous intention, sire, bewilders and makes me apprehensive, for, in doing for my family what your kindness urges you to do, your majesty will raise up enemies for us, and enemies for yourself too.
Leave me in my mediocrity, sire; of all the feelings and sentiments I experience, leave me to enjoy that pleasing delicacy of disinterestedness." "The sentiments you express," said the king, "are indeed admirable." "Quite true," murmured Aramis in Fouquet's ear, "and he cannot be accustomed to them." "But," replied Fouquet, "suppose she were to make a similar reply to my letter." "True!" said Aramis, "let us not anticipate, but wait the conclusion." "And then, dear Monsieur d'Herblay," added the surintendant, hardly able to appreciate the sentiments which La Valliere had just expressed, "it is very often a sound calculation to seem disinterested with monarchs." "Exactly what I was thinking this very minute," said Aramis.