I will do what can be done.

The issue is in the hands of God." On the very day on which this letter was written Mons fell.

The siege had been vigorously pressed.

Lewis himself, though suffering from the gout, had set the example of strenuous exertion.

His household troops, the finest body of soldiers in Europe, had, under his eye, surpassed themselves.
The young nobles of his court had tried to attract his notice by exposing themselves to the hottest fire with the same gay alacrity with which they were wont to exhibit their graceful figures at his balls.