[XXV. I DECLARE FOR THE KING]

[XXVI. I RENEW AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE]

[XXVII. I KNOW HOW TO WAIT]

[XXVIII. I RETURN TO NAPLES]

[XXIX. I STILL KNOW HOW TO WAIT]

[XXX. I AM JUSTIFIED IN MY POLICY]

[XXXI. I KNOW MY OWN HEART]

INTRODUCTORY

“I am convinced she rivalled, at fifty, the exquisite Diane de Poitiers herself, in the brightness of her wit and the perfection of her form, and might have passed as triumphantly a like test of the marble.”

The Marquis de C—— in his “Foreword.”