Luckily, if there is any justice in this world, fortune owes me many compensations.

She owes me certainly a recompense for all I did for Anne of Austria, and an indemnification for all she has not done for me.
Then, at the present, I am very well with a king, and with a king who has the appearance of determining to reign.

May God keep him in that illustrious road! For, if he is resolved to reign, he will want me; and if he wants me, he will give me what he has promised me--warmth and light; so that I march, comparatively, now, as I marched formerly,--from nothing to everything.

Only the nothing of to-day is the all of former days; there has only this little change taken place in my life.

And now let us see! let us take the part of the heart, as I just now was speaking of it.