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We sat down to table, and afterwards rehearsed the piece without any need of the prompter's assistance. Towards evening the ambassador told the company that he would expect them to supper that evening at Soleure, and everyone left with the exception of the ambassador, myself, and M. and Madame . Just as we were going I had an agreeable surprise.
I think I know the nature of your love for her well enough to say that if she told you that your leaving Soleure was necessary to her peace of mind you would leave her at once. You see that I have sounded you well enough to be a competent adviser in this delicate and important affair, to which the most famous events in the annals of diplomacy are not to be compared."
"And I," said he, "am equally pleased to assure you of my gratitude. Come and breakfast with us, my wife is still at her toilette. Come along." I rose hastily, and just as I was leaving the room I saw the dreadful widow, who seemed full of glee, and said, "I thank you, sir; I thank you with all my heart. I beg to leave you at liberty again; I am going back to Soleure."
As I had written the two letters according to my housekeeper's instructions, I determined to follow her advice to the end. She told me what to say to Le Duc in the morning; and she was curious to know what sort of stuff he was made of, she begged me to let her listen behind the curtains of my bed. Next morning Le Due came in, and I asked if he could ride on horseback to Soleure.
"And I," said he, "am equally pleased to assure you of my gratitude. Come and breakfast with us, my wife is still at her toilette. Come along." I rose hastily, and just as I was leaving the room I saw the dreadful widow, who seemed full of glee, and said, "I thank you, sir; I thank you with all my heart. I beg to leave you at liberty again; I am going back to Soleure."
"All the better; I will give a ball as evidence of my gratitude to the people of Soleure for the kind welcome I have received from them." "Would you like to come and see it to-morrow?" "With pleasure." "Very good, then I will call for you at eight o'clock, if that hour will suit you." "I shall expect you."
The Renaud had blasted me, and the pretended Lascaris had given me a great deal of trouble and anxiety. We embraced each other tenderly, and the wedded pair returned to Soleure and I to Geneva; but feeling that I wanted rest I wrote to the syndic that I was not well and could not come till the next day, and after I had done so I went to bed.
Twenty years ago he had spent a night with a middle-aged ugly vixen in Soleure, when he had imagined himself to be possessing a beautiful young woman whom he adored. He recalled how next day, in a shameless letter, she had derided him for the mistake that she had so greatly desired him to make and that she had compassed with such infamous cunning. He shuddered at the thought.
I heard her carriage, but I did not take the slightest notice. The villainous woman sent away the carriage and installed herself in her room with her maid. I had sent Le Duc to Soleure for my letters, so I was obliged to beg my housekeeper to do my hair; and she did it admirably, as I told her we should have the ambassador and the two Jesuits to dinner.
"Do you know I think the rascal is unique," said my dear Dubois, emerging from her hiding-place, "I had hard work to keep from laughing when he said that if he were pitched out of the window he would not come back so soon. I am sure he will acquit himself better than ever did diplomatist. When he gets to Soleure the monster will have already dispatched her reply to your second letter.
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