She has sometimes lectured me about my strayings, but very maternally: she is sorry for me, and quite sure that I shall return to the right path.

She said to me, some time ago, "I don't know how you do, you are the intimate friend of Father Griffet; the Bishop of Neustadt has always spoken well of you; likewise the Archbishop of Malines; and the Cardinal [name Sinzendorf, or else not known to me, dignity and red hat sufficiently visible] loves you much."' "Why cannot I remember the hundred luminous things which escaped the King in this conversation! It lasted till the trumpet at Head-quarters announced dinner.

The King went to take his place; and I think it was on this occasion that, some one having asked why M.de Loudon had not come yet, he said, 'That is not his custom: formerly he often arrived before me.

Please let him take this place next me; I would rather have him at my side than opposite.'" That is very pretty.

And a better authority gives it, The King said to Loudon himself, on Loudon's entering, _"Mettez-vous aupres de moi, M.
de Loudon; j'aime mieux vous avoir a cote de moi que vis-a-vis."_ He was very kind to Loudon; "constantly called him M.LE FELDMARECHAL [delicate hint of what should have been, but WAS not for seven years yet]; and, at parting, gave him [as he did to Lacy also] two superb horses, magnificently equipped." [Pezzl, _Vie de Loudon,_ ii.