I will have every consideration for the Queen my Mother, and will sate her (RASSASIERAI) with honors; but I do not mean that she shall meddle in my affairs; and if she try it, she will find so.'" What a speech; what an outbreak of candor in the young man, preoccupied with his own great thoughts and difficulties,--to the exclusion of any other person's! "I fell from the clouds, on hearing all that; and knew not if I was sleeping or waking.

He then questioned me on the affairs of this Country.

I gave him the detail of them.

He said to me: 'When your goose (BENET) of a Father-in-law dies, I advise you to break up the whole Court, and reduce yourselves to the footing of a private gentleman's establishment, in order to pay your debts.

In real truth, you have no need of so many people; and you must try also to reduce the wages of those whom you cannot help keeping.