everybody was satisfied she was not be be come at.

The Duchess of Loraine, while she was employed in negotiating the
peace, had applied herself to settle the marriage of the Duke her
son: a marriage was agreed upon between him and Madam Claude of
France, the King's second daughter; and the month of February was
appointed for the nuptials.

In the meantime the Duke of Nemours continued at Brussels, his
thoughts being wholly employed on his design in England; he was
continually sending or receiving couriers from thence; his hopes
increased every day, and at last Lignerolly sent him word that it
was time to finish by his presence what was so well begun; he
received this news with all the joy a young ambitious man is
capable of, who sees himself advanced to a throne merely by the
force of his personal merit; his mind insensibly accustomed
itself to the grandeur of a Royal State; and whereas he had at
first rejected this undertaking as an impracticable thing, the
difficulties of it were now worn out of his imagination, and he
no longer saw anything to obstruct his way.

He sent away in haste to Paris to give the necessary orders for
providing a magnificent equipage, that he might make his
appearance in England with a splendour suitable to the design he
was to conduct; and soon after he followed himself, to assist at
the marriage of the Duke of Loraine.

He arrived the evening before the espousals, and that very
evening waited on the King to give him an account of his affair,
and to receive his orders and advice how to govern himself in it.