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"Then you are the traitor, Lorance," chimed the silvery tones of Mme. de Montpensier. "It is not denied that M. de Mar has gone over to the enemy; therefore are you the traitor to have intercourse with him." She spoke without heat, without any appearance of ill feeling. Hers was merely the desire, for the fun of it, to keep the flurry going.
Mayenne started forward with half an oath, changing to a laugh. "So it is not enough for you to possess the fair body of Lorance; you must also have her love?" "She will love me," Lucas answered uneasily. "She must." "It is not worth your fret," Mayenne declared. "If she did, how long would it last? Souvent femme varie that is the only fixed fact about her.
Afterward, when my brother Charles dashed into Paris, and the people clamoured for his marriage with the Infanta, you conceived the scheme of forcing Lorance on him. But it would not do, and again you promised her to me if I could get you certain information from the royalist army.
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