168 MEMOIKS OF THE DUKE OF SAINT-SIMOK.

CHAPTER XVIII.

My interview with Du Mont—A Mysterious Communication—Anger of
Monseigueur against me—Household of the Duehesee do Berry-—Mon-
seigneur taken ill of the Small Pox—Effect of the Newa—-The "King goes
to Meudon—The Danger diminiBhes—-Madame de Maintenon at Meudou
—The Court at Versailles—Hopes and Fears—The Danger returns-—
Death of Monseigneur—Conduct of the King.

BUT in order to understand the part I played in the event I
have alluded to and the interest I took in it, it is necessary for
me to relate some personal matters that occurred in the previous
year. Du Mont was one of the confidants of Monsoignour;
but also had never forgotten what his father owed to mino.
Some days after the commencement of the second voyage to
Marly, subsequently to the marriage of the Duchoaso do Bony,
as I was coming back from the King's mass, the said Du Mont,
in the crush at the door of the little salon of the chapol, took an
opportunity when he was not perceived, to pull mo by my coat,
and when I turned round put a finger to his lips, and pointful
towards the gardens which are at the bottom of the river, that
is to say, of that superb cascade which the Cardinal Floury has
destroyed, and which faced the roar of the chUtoati. Afc the
same time Du Mont whispered in my ear; et To the arbours f
That part of the garden was surrounded with arbours palisaded
so as to conceal what was inside. It was the least frequented
place at Marly, leading to nothing; and in the afternoon oven,
and the evening, few people within them.
Uneasy to know what Du Mont wished to communicate