"Nothing will be more easy," he said, "than for you to fashion her to Spanish gravity, by keeping her retired; in the capacity of her _camarera major,_ intrusted with her education, you will easily be able to acquire complete sway over her mind." The Princess des Ursins believed him, and settled the marriage.

"Cardonne has surrendered at last, Madame," she wrote on the 20th of September, 1714, to Madame de Maintenon; "there is nothing left in Catalonia that is not reduced.

The new queen, at her coming into this kingdom, is very fortunate to find no more war there.

She whom we have lost would have been beside herself with delight at enjoying peace after having experienced such cruel sufferings of all kinds.

The longer I live, the more I see that we are never so near a reverse of Fortune as when she is favorable, or so near receiving favors as when she is maltreating us.