TWO:A post in one of the royal households was an object of general ambition. Durufl, though a poet and well-known literary man who had received a prize from the Academy, applied for and obtained the appointment of valet e chambre to the young Comte de Provence, second grandson of the King, afterwards Louis XVIII., and was in consequence obliged to put on his stockings, in doing which he accidentally hurt him.
TWO:Take it, mon ami, she said, I am your country-woman, you need not be ashamed to receive a little help from me.The concierge did not half like this, but winter was coming on and a pavilion in the middle of a large garden was difficult to let.
