"Most willingly," said I,
and took him with me. I left him in the antechamber, and mentioned the
matter to his lordship, who returned me no answer. After passing
with him the whole morning, I saw as I crossed the hall to go to
dinner, poor Sandoz, who was fatigued to death with waiting.
Thinking the governor had forgotten what I had said to him, I again
spoke of the business before we sat down to table, but still
received no answer. I thought this manner of making me feel I was
importunate rather severe, and, pitying the poor man in waiting,
held my tongue. On my return the next day I was much surprised at
the thanks he returned me for the good dinner his excellency had given
him after receiving his paper. Three weeks afterwards his lordship
sent him the rescript he had solicited, dispatched by the minister,
and signed by the king, and this without having said a word either
to myself or Sandoz concerning the business, about which I thought
he did not choose to give himself the least concern.
I could wish incessantly to speak of George Keith; from him proceeds
my recollection of the last happy moments I have enjoyed; the rest
of my life, since our separation, has been passed in affliction and
grief of heart. The remembrance of this is so melancholy and
confused that it was impossible for me to observe the least order in
what I write, so that in future I shall be under the necessity of
stating facts without giving them a regular arrangement.
I was soon relieved from my inquietude arising from the
uncertainty of my asylum, by the answer from his majesty to the lord
marshal, in whom, as it will readily be believed, I had found an
able advocate.
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