'By accident I met the Abbe du Boise at Lilly's house yesterday.

It seems he had heard of the kind friendship your Majesty has shown me, and doubtless hoping to use me, offered me ten thousand pounds if I succeeded in inducing your Majesty to accept the French king's offer for the city of Dunkirk.

Ever since my interview with him, I have been trying to see your Majesty, hoping that you might find the information useful, and desiring your Majesty to know that I was to receive the money in case you accepted, else I might seem false to my king.'" I laughed and said: "I knew you would be able to wheedle him.

A little woman with a big motive is like faith, in that she can move mountains." "Yes, yes, it is easy enough," she answered.

"He took my hand, and I permitted him to hold it for a moment, then withdrew it, you know, as though impelled by modesty.