Capitolo 68
now twelve years old, on the dogs and horses and the customs of hunting
in the country of the Prince of Orange. He spoke on these subjects
fluently enough in the French language, but when after the queen
regent of what interested would naturally be in a different class
themes, asked him some business of his really kingdom and its plans
to recover him/it, he excused him saying that he didn't speak
French well enough to give her information. It says Ann Maria her
determined by that moment not to conclude the marriage, "for me
it conceived a very poor opinion of his, while being a king, and to his/her age,
don't have any knowledge of his/her business." Such chins as Ann Maria I am it is
rarely very logical; but such inference as this, that he was ignorant
of his own business because he declined explaining plain which the success
depended on secretiveness in such society as that, and in a language with
what, although he could speak of dogs and horses to him, still he was
very it defectively informed, it is too much great far a jump from premises to
conclusion to honestly be done. It is very evident that Ann Maria it was
don't be pleased.
They reached Compiegne. As the king was following that evening,
supper used soon after they arrived. It says Ann Maria he ate anybody
ortolans, a very expensive and rare dish of small birds that you/they had
is expressly prepared for this supper in honor of the real guest,
[The footnote: The ortolan is a very small bird that is fattened up in lamp
rooms illuminated to the great expense, because you/he/she is found to be of a more
delicate taste when excluded by the daylight. They comes from the
island in the Cyprus, and you/he/she has been famous in every age of the world as
an article of real luxury.] "but flung him on a piece of steer
and a shoulder of meat of ram, as if there had been no anything other to table.
After supper, when we was in the room of sketch, the queen had a good time
with the other ladies and gentlemen, and he/she left him/it with me. He was a
quarter of a hour without speaking a word; but I am prepared for believing