I took my resolution at the moment [being a swift decisive creature]; and received her like any other Lady that might have come to me.

Her visit was not long.

The conversation turned altogether upon praises of the King [my Brother].

I found Madame de Belleisle very different from the notion I had formed of her.

You could see she had moved in high company (SENTAIT SON MONDE); but her air appeared to me that of a waiting-maid (SOUBRETTE), and her manners insignificant." Let Madame take that.
"Monseigneur himself," when our equipages had come, "waited on me several times,"-- Monseigueur the grand Marechal de Belleisle, among the other Principalities and Lordships: but of this lean man in black (who has done such famous things, and will have to do the Retreat of Prag within year and day), there is not a word farther said.