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Updated: May 13, 2025
He consented to see the jewellers in the matter, and on July 10th three weeks before the first instalment was due he presented himself at the Grand Balcon to convey the Queen's wishes to the Bohmers. Bohmer scarcely troubled to prevent disgust from showing on his keen, swarthy countenance.
And she took the opportunity to represent to him that one of the reasons why the Queen could not yet consider the necklace quite her own was that she found the price too high. "Indeed, she may be constrained to return it, after all, unless the Bohmers are prepared to be reasonable." If His Eminence was a little dismayed by this, at least any nascent uneasiness was quieted.
Rohan gave the required promise, but, not conceiving that the Bohmers were included in it, he showed them the note and the Queen's signature when they came to wait upon him with the necklace on the morrow. In the dusk of evening a closed carriage drew up at the door of Madame de la Motte Valois's lodging on the Place Dauphine at Versailles.
For this she required an intermediary who in himself would be a sufficient guarantee to the Bohmers, and she ended by inviting His Eminence to act on her behalf. That invitation the Cardinal, who had been waiting ever since the meeting in the Grove of Venus for an opportunity of proving himself, accepted with alacrity.
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