It is now seven and twenty years that Madame St.Laurent and I have lived together: we are of the same age, and have been in all climates, and in all difficulties together, and you may well imagine, Mr.Creevey, the pang it will occasion me to part with her.

I put it to your own feelings--in the event of any separation between you and Mrs.Creevey...

As for Madame St.Laurent herself, I protest I don't know what is to become of her if a marriage is to be forced upon me; her feelings are already so agitated upon the subject." The Duke went on to describe how, one morning, a day or two after the Princess Charlotte's death, a paragraph had appeared in the Morning Chronicle, alluding to the possibility of his marriage.

He had received the newspaper at breakfast together with his letters, and "I did as is my constant practice, I threw the newspaper across the table to Madame St.Laurent, and began to open and read my letters.

I had not done so but a very short time, when my attention was called to an extraordinary noise and a strong convulsive movement in Madame St.
Laurent's throat.