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self two months after quite well, free from suffering and in. the
enjoyment of all his faculties.

I shrunk accordingly from the finances for the reason I have
above given, and made M. le Due d'Orleans so angry by my
refusal to accept the office he had proposed to me, that for three
weeks he sulked and would not speak to me, except upon un-
important matters.

At the end of that time, in the midst of a languishing con-
versation, he exclaimed, " Very well, then. You stick to your
text, you won't have the finances ?"

I respectfully lowered my eyes and replied, in a gentle tone,
that I thought that question was settled. He could not restrain
some complaints, but they were not bitter, nor was he angry,
and then rising and taking a few turns in the room, without
saying a word, and his head bent, as was his custom when em-
barrassed, he suddenly spun round upon me, and exclaimed,
" But whom shall we put there ?'

I suggested the Due de Noailles, and although the suggestion
at first met with much warm opposition from M. le Due
d'Orldans, it was ultimately accepted by him.

The moment after we had settled this point he said to me,
" And you ! what will you be ?" and he pressed me so much to
explain myself that I said at last -if he would put me in the
council of affairs of the interior, I thought I should do better
there than elsewhere.

" Chief, then," replied he with vivacity.

" No, no ! not that," said I; " simply a place in the council."

"We both insisted, he for, I against. "A place in that
council," he said, " would be ridiculous, and cannot be thought
of. Since you will not be chief, there is only one post which
suits you, and which suits me also. You must be in the council
I shall be in,—the Supreme Council"

I accepted the post, and thanked him. From that moment
this distinction remained fixed.

I will not enter into all the suggestions I offered to M. le Due
d'Orleans respecting the Regency, or give the details of all the
projects I submitted to him. Many of those projects and sug-