ut, in despite of the da

she used all the craft

val suitors one against another. She hoped, by

at that time Royalists i

, daily renewed, that

a conviction that prove

s, the Countess had mai

an inexplicable want of prudence, she took occa

-room felt a lively anxiety when the news was spread; then, with the fran

, or illness that had

me formula: her mistress was keeping her room, and would see no one, no

ural explanation of the business of everybody

. de Dey (without knowi

w), each one began to in

den sec

one; "now the doctor has been playing chess in my house all day. He said

, it is i

discreetly. Women an

etook themselves to the

there was some secret i

Next day the suspici

women-kind were the first to find out that Brigi

uted. Brigitte had been

nd, wonderful to relate