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I do not speak of him," said the duke, who had now become deadly pale. "And I am determined to speak to you of him. Never, you understand, never was Guy de Lissac my lover. No, in spite of appearances; he has never even kissed my lips. I thought I loved him, but before yielding, I had time to discover that I did not love him!
Vaudrey regained his place, much dissatisfied at having come and furious at this pretentious imbecile, when, on leaving the wings, he ran against Lissac who was entering a sort of hall where Louis sat writing the names of the entrances on the sheet. Guy flushed slightly on seeing him. "In order to see you, one has to meet you here," said Sulpice. "Why have you not called on me?
Then one answers him, as I have just answered you, and cries out to him: 'Beware!" "I thank you," said Rosas, suddenly stopping short on the pavement. "You treat me like a true friend." "And if I seem to you to be too severe," added Lissac, smiling, "charge that to the account of bitterness. A man that has loved a woman is never altogether just toward her.
"I thought that Madame Gerson was on the best of terms with Madame Marsy," whispered Adrienne to Lissac, who replied: "They have been on better! They perhaps will be so again. That is of very little importance. Women revile each other and associate at the same time." Adrienne decided that she would not listen.
"Marianne?" repeated Lissac, who perfectly understood the question from De Rosas's hesitation. "My dear friend, when a man feels sufficiently anxious, or sufficiently weak, or sufficiently smitten, whichever you please, to stake his life on the throw of the dice, he is permitted to put one of those misplaced questions to which I have just referred.
"Those of the old days?" "That is so," he said. "The past." He understood everything now. "You came to ask me to return them?" "I have been, you must admit, very considerate, not to have claimed them before!" "You have been generous!" answered Lissac, with a gracious smile.
I give you my word," said Lissac, "that I should speak very differently of Mademoiselle Alice Aubry, or of Mademoiselle Cora Touchard. I would say to you quite frankly: They are pretty creatures; there is no danger." "And Marianne, on the contrary, is dangerous." "Oh! perfectly, for you." "And why is she not dangerous for you?"
But it is not Guy who will come, but Monsieur de Lissac, remember. Is that understood?" "I should be very silly if I answered yes." Marianne shrugged her shoulders. "Compliments! How foolish you are! Keep that sort of talk for others. It is a long time since they were addressed to me." She took that man's face between her hands and kissed his cheeks in a frank, friendly way.
He was anxious to rush off to the ministry. Was the Chamber sitting to-day? No. He would perhaps then find Sulpice at his first call. The messengers knew him. He speedily hastened to Place Bréda, looking for a carriage. On the way, he stumbled against a man who came down on the same side, smoking a cigar. "Oh! Monsieur de Lissac!"
Lissac had not noticed, in fact, that a marquee with red stripes was being erected at the entrance to the hôtel, and that upholsterers were bringing in wagons benches covered with red velvet with which they were blocking the peristyle. There was a reception at the ministry. "That will not prevent Monsieur Vaudrey from seeing me," he said.
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