de Perrot been in my place I
think that he would have shed more tears. I was myself somewhat
dashed, though I knew the prudence that governed her in her most
impetuous sallies; still, to avoid the risk of hearing things
which we might both afterwards wish unsaid, I came to the point.
"I fear that I have timed my visit ill, Madame," I said. "You
have some complaint against me."
"Only that you are like the others," she answered with a fine
contempt. "You profess one thing and do another."
"As for example?"
"For example!" she replied, with a scornful laugh. "How many
times have you told me that you left women, and intrigues in
which women had part, on one side?"
I bowed.
"And now I find you--you and that Perrot, that creature!--
intriguing against me; intriguing with some country chit to--"
"Madame!" I said, cutting her short with a show of temper,
"where did you get this?"
"Do you deny it?" she cried, looking so beautiful in her anger
that I thought I had never seen her to such advantage.
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