The Secret Correspondence of Madame de Maintenon

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: I trespass upon your patience, Madam, but you must attribute it to your too great indulgence towards me, which makes you even excuse my importunities. I conclude by assuring you of my respectful attachment, which will last during my whole life. LETTER LXXIX. TO THE SAME. Madrid, April 28th, 1707. Let us...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: I trespass upon your patience, Madam, but you must attribute it to your too great indulgence towards me, which makes you even excuse my importunities. I conclude by assuring you of my respectful attachment, which will last during my whole life. LETTER LXXIX. TO THE SAME. Madrid, April 28th, 1707. Let us rejoice, Madam, and return thanks to -God, by whose Almighty arm we have gained a complete victory over our enemies. What cause of joy for the King, for all the royal family, and what a consolation for you Their Majesties, I can assure you, are still more alive to this great event, in as much as it will give satisfaction to the King their grandfather, than from their own particular interest, and the pleasure they have of seeing their throne firmly established. T shall not attempt to describe my feelings, as you may judge of them from your own. It was I who had the happiness of announcing this news to the King and Queen, which I did in the most delicate manner, in order that the feelings of her Majesty might not be overpowered, and to preserve our Prince of Asturias, who, we may hope, will be born at an auspicious period. Present my humble respects to the King, Monseigneur, and the Duchess of Burgundy, and also to the other Princes. I could wish to have written to them, but I commission you, Madam, if you please, for you will pardon such liberties on a day when I neither know what I do or say. P.S. The King is too much indebted to Marshal de Berwick not to give him a mark of his gratitude, and the only one is to make him a grandee, which new dignity his Majesty feels himself obliged to bestow upon him. He thinks that the King his grandfather will approve of it, whatever repugnance he may have to see distinctions given, for certainly that cannot extend to a man wh...