48 MEMOIRS OF THE DUKE OF SAINT-SIMON.

very different air. Afterwards, there was a supper for the Due
•de Berry in the apartments of the Duchesse de Bourgogne ; but
the conjugal impatience of the Due de Bourgogne cut it rather
too short.

I expressed to the Due de Beauvilliers, with my accustomed
freedom, that the Due de Bourgogne seemed to me very gay on
returning from so sad a campaign. He could not deny this,
and made up his mind to give a hint on the subject. Every-
body indeed blamed so misplaced a gaiety. Two or three days
•after his arrival the Due de Bourgogne passed three hours with
the King in the apartments of Madame de Maintenon. I was
.afraid that his piety would withhold him from letting out on
the subject of M. de Vendome, but I heard that he spoke on
that subject without restraint, impelled by the advice of the
Duchesse de Bourgogne, and also by the Due de Beauvilliers,
who set his conscience at ease. His account of the campaign,
of affairs, of things, of advices, of proceedings, was complete.
Another, perhaps, less virtuous, might have used weightier
terms; but at any rate everything was said with a complete-
ness beyond all hope, if we consider who spoke and who listened.
The Due concluded with an eager prayer to be given an army
in the next campaign, and with the promise of the King to that
effect. Soon after an explanation took place with Monseigneur
.at Meudon, Mademoiselle Choin being present. With the latter
he spoke much more in private: she had taken his part with
Monseigneur. The Duchesse de Bourgogne had gained her
•over. The connection of this girl with Madame de Maintenon
was beginning to grow very close indeed.

Gamaches had been to the army with the Due de Bourgogne,
and being a free-tongued man had often spoken out very
sharply on the puerilities in which he indulged in company
with the Due de Berry, influenced by his example. One day
returning from mass, in company with the Due on a critical
day, when he would rather have seen him on horseback, he said
aloud, "You will certainly win the kingdom of heaven; but as
for the kingdom of the earth, Prince Eug&ne and Marlborough
know how to seek it better than you." What he said quite as