Moreover, when the Chevalier has been at hand he has been careful to show no greater regard for the one than for the other of you.

I instructed him in this duplicity many weeks ago." She looked at me for a moment.
"Oh, Monsieur," she cried passionately, "how deep is my humiliation! To think that I was made a part of so vile a bargain! Oh, I am glad that M.
de Mancini has proved above the sordid task to which they set him--glad that he will dupe the Cardinal and my father." "So am not I, Mademoiselle," I exclaimed.

She vouchsafed me a stare of ineffable surprise.
"How?
"Diable!" I answered.

"I am M.de Mancini's friend.

It was to shield him that I fought your brother; again, because of my attitude towards him was it that I went perilously near assassination at Reaux.