The striking difference very apparent in the characters severally of host and guest in our little chapter of history, may have helped to draw them together all the more closely. James was in his ordinary mood anything but mirthful. References to him are frequent in the correspondence as being "terribly sad," or else "very pensive, which is his ordinary humour," "_très sérieux et reservé_," so much so that "_rien ne l'auoit pû tirer de la profonde melancolie ou il étoit_," and so on. Yet he could be merry, too, and more in particular he loved a dance. At one ball, given in the Palace at Lunéville, we read that he managed particularly to ingratiate himself with the ladies who were past their first bloom, by an act of undoubted chivalry. They wanted badly to dance, but dared not, while the Duchess was sitting. And the Duchess considered herself too much of a matron to foot it with the young ones. James, however, made her. He would take no refusal. The dead room became reanimated once more, and many an aging heart in its night-thoughts blessed the gallant _prétendant_. James, we are told, was a prominent figure in the Nancy _Brandons_ and Carnival, kept with peculiar _éclat_ in 1715, after a fresh break of thirteen years, due to French occupation. Court chroniclers seem to consider that the presence of "_Le Roi d'Angleterre_" added peculiar lustre to that performance. Reporting himself after his visit to Bar, as in duty bound, to King Louis, Leopold declares himself "_charmé de l'esprit, de la sagesse, de la douceur et des manières gracieuses de M. le Chevalier de Saint Georges_." The 'Journal de Verdun,' drawing its information, of course, from official sources, announces that after their first encounter the two princes "_se separèrent extrêmement satisfaits l'un de l'autre_" in "_parfaite amitié bien cimentée_." Of James it will have it that he is "_d'un caractère si doux, si affable, et si populair, qu'il s'est bientôt acquis, de tous ceux qui ont eu l'honneur de le voir, le respect et la vénération dûs à sa vertu et à sa naissance_."