In this character ought I not to take an interest in these domestic intrigues?
Come, tell me what you think ?" "As little as possible, madame." "Agreed, monsieur; but it is a question of dignity; and then, you know, I am the wife of the king's brother." Guiche sighed.

"A circumstance," she added, with an expression of great tenderness, "which will remind you that I am always to be treated with the profoundest respect." Guiche fell at her feet, which he kissed, with the religious fervor of a worshiper.

"And I begin to think that, really and truly, I have another character to perform.

I was almost forgetting it." "Name it, oh! name it," said Guiche.
"I am a woman," she said, in a voice lower than ever, "and I love another." He rose; she opened her arms, and their lips were pressed together.

A footstep was heard behind the tapestry, and Mademoiselle de Montalais appeared.
"What do you want ?" said Madame.
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