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"Well?" "Hortense will be marrying some grand courtier." "May he be worthy of her." "I think many ask her." "And what does Mistress Hortense say?" "I think," answers Rebecca meditatively, "from the quantity of love-verse writ, she must keep saying No." Then Lady Kirke turns to bid us all go to the Duke's Theatre, where the king's suite would appear that night. Rebecca, of course, would not go.
"Don't forget to pay special compliments to the favourites," she calls, as we set out for Whitehall; and she must run to the door in a flutter and ask if Pierre Radisson has any love-verse ready writ, in case of an amour with one of the court ladies. "No," says Radisson, "but here are unpaid tailor bills! 'Tis as good as your billets-doux! I'll kiss 'em just as hard!"
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