‘“What? How can that be!” she is said to have lost her temper when she saw Hyde. “He would deprive me of being a duchesse? Well, I will complete his ruin, I will strip him to the bone – that gooseherd, that vulgar little good-for-nothing arse-wipe!”’ ‘But who was she talking about?’ ‘About you, of course, Marquis.’ ‘About me?’ Louis-Henri, climbing the stairway at Rue Taranne, could not believe what he had heard. That was what the love of his life said about him? Standing next to the Gascon, Monsieur and Madame Abraham winced, embarrassed and puzzled. ‘How that young woman has changed,’ sighed Constance. ‘The poor thing has completely lost all sense of reality at the Gambling Den,’ said the cuckold, trying to excuse her. ‘She warned me, Versailles is a dreadful place; there is not a single person whose head is not turned by it. The court changes even the best of souls.” I must get her out of that hell,’ he continued. As he said this, a guard on the first-floor landing was listening and a bailiff was drawing up an inventory of the salon.
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