[1] When Mercy remonstrated with her on her relapse into some of her old habits from which at first she seemed to have weaned herself, "La seule réponse que j'aie obtenu a été la crainte de s'ennuyer."-Mercy to Maria Teresa, November 19th, 1777, Arneth, iii., p. 13.
[2] See Marie Antoinette's account to her mother of his quarrel with the Duchess