on the 4th of January, 1641, "to trouble you about the ill tempers of M.Le Grand.

I upbraided him with his heedlessness; he answered that for that matter he could not change, and that he should do no better than he had done.

I said that, considering his obligations to me, he ought not to address me in that manner.

He answered in his usual way: that he didn't want my kindness, that he could do very well without it, and that he would be quite as well content to be Cinq-Mars as M.Le Grand, but, as for changing his ways and his life, he couldn't do it.

And so, he continually knagging at me and I at him, we came as far as the court-yard, when I said to him that, being in the temper he was in, he would do me the pleasure of not coming to see me.