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Updated: July 17, 2025
She was compelled to occupy herself with the great affair of the trousseau until evening. The Duchess and her nephew dined with the Guilleroys, as a family party. They had just seated themselves at table, and were speaking of the opera of the night before, when the butler appeared, carrying three enormous bouquets. Madame de Mortemain was surprised. "Good gracious! What is that?"
This remark was repeated to the young Countess the next day; and that evening Bertin received a little blue-tinted note, delicately perfumed, in a small, regular handwriting, slanting a little from left to right, which said: "MONSIEUR: "The Duchesse de Mortemain, who has just left my house, has assured me that you would be disposed to make, from my poor face, one of your masterpieces.
"I will grant you willingly that he adores peace if you will concede to me that he always wishes to make war in order to obtain it. But that is an indisputable and phenomenal truth: In this world war is made only to obtain peace!" A servant announced: "Madame la Duchesse de Mortemain." Between the folding-doors appeared a tall, large woman, who entered with an air of authority.
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