"
"Then you'll be able to do your share in paying off this national
debt," growled the nobleman, well content that as he conceived it
- some of the evil Andre-Louis had helped to sow should recoil
upon him.
Then the talk veered to Mme. de Plougastel. M. de Kercadiou,
Andre-Louis gathered, but not the reason for it, disapproved most
strongly of this visit. But then Madame la Comtesse was a headstrong
woman whom there was no denying, whom all the world obeyed. M. de
Plougastel was at present absent in Germany, but would shortly be
returning. It was an indiscreet admission from which it was easy
to infer that M. de Plougastel was one of those intriguing emissaries
who came and went between the Queen of France and her brother, the
Emperor of Austria.
The carriage drew up before a handsome hotel in the Faubourg
Saint-Denis, at the corner of the Rue Paradis, and they were ushered
by a sleek servant into a little boudoir, all gilt and brocade, that
opened upon a terrace above a garden that was a park in miniature.
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