“Without result?”
“Yes.”
“Well, then, the princes of the blood; M. le Duc d’Orleans is charitable, and often likes to do what the king refuses.”
“I have tried him, equally fruitlessly.”
“That astonishes me.”
“Oh, when one is poor, and not supported by any one——”
“There is still the Comte d’Artois; sometimes dissipated men do more generous actions than charitable ones.”
“It is the same story with him.”
“But the princesses, the aunts of the king, Madame Elizabeth particularly, would refuse assistance to no one.”
“It is true, monseigneur, her royal highness, to whom I wrote, promised to receive me; but, I know not why, after having received my husband, I could never get any more notice from her.”