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Vice is chastised, as it should be, even in kings, though perhaps we judge of their temptations too lightly. Revenge is punished as not to be lightly exercised by our limited notion of justice. It may have been Carpezan's wife who perverted the King, and not the King who led the woman astray. At any rate, Louis is rightly humiliated for his crime, and the Renegade most justly executed for his.
The Abbess, with a look of much trouble and anger, says that, "besides herself, the noble sisters of Saint Mary's House are twenty twenty-three." She was going to say twenty-four, and now says twenty-three? "Ha! why this hesitation?" asks Captain Ulric, one of Carpezan's gayest officers. The dark chief pulls a letter from his pocket.
Warrington's apartments in Southampton Row, they found a letter awaiting George, which the latter placed in his pocket unread, so that he might proceed immediately with his companion to Soho. We may be sure the ladies there were eager to know about the Carpezan's fate in the morning's small rehearsal.
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