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Under the Red Robe

CHAPTER V
10/31

Cursing him for an ill-conditioned fellow, I walked back to the fire, laughing.

In a twinkling he followed me, his face dark with rage.

'VENTRE-SAINT-GRIS!' he exclaimed, thrusting himself close to me.

'Is not a man's house his own ?' 'It is, for me,' I answered coolly, shrugging my shoulders.

'And his wife: if she likes to pick dirty rags at this hour, that is your affair.' 'Pig of a spy!' he cried, foaming with rage.
I was angry enough at bottom, but I had nothing to gain by quarrelling with the fellow; and I curtly bade him remember himself.
'Your mistress gave you orders,' I said contemptuously.


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