170 MEMOIRS OF THE DUKE OF SAINT-SIMON.

Princesse de Conti said to it.; but from the silence of Du Mont,
her annoyance at the marriage I had brought about, and other
reasons, it seems to me unlikely that she tried to soften Mon-
seigneur.

Du Mont begged me not, for a long time at least, to show
that I knew what had taken place, and to behave with the*-
utmost prudence. Then he fled away by the path he had come
by, fearing to be seen. I remained walking up and down in
the arbour all the time, reflecting on the wickedness of my
enemies, and the gross credulity of Monseigneur. Then I ran
away, and escaped to Madame de Saint-Simon, who, as-
astonished and frightened as I, said not a word of the communi-
cation I had received.

I never knew who had served me this ill-turn with Mon-
seigneur, but I always suspected Mademoiselle de Lillebonne.
After a long time, having obtained with difficulty the consent
of the timid Du Mont, I made Madame de Saint-Simon speak
to the Duchesse de Bourgogne, who undertook to arrange the
affair as well as it could be arranged. The Duchesse spoke
indeed to Monseigneur, and showed him how ridiculously he
had been deceived, when he was persuaded that I could ever
have entertained the ideas attributed to me. Monseigneur
admitted that he had been carried away by anger; and that
there was no likelihood that I should have thought of any-
thing so wicked and incredible.

About this time the house of the Due and Duchesse de Berry
was constituted. Eacilly obtained the splendid appointment
of first surgeon, and was worthy of it; but the Duchesse de
Berry wept bitterly, because she did not consider him of high
family enough. She was not so delicate about La TIaye, whose
appointment she rapidly secured. The fellow looked in the
glass more complaisantly than ever. He was well made, but
stiff, and with a face not at all handsome, and looking as if it
had been skinned. He was happy in more ways than one, and
was fax more attached to his new mistress than to his master.
The King was very angry when he learned that the Due de
Berry had supplied himself with such an assistant.