"Let me have her for a few days in some secluded place," said he to
himself, "where she cannot escape from me, or have any intercourse with
her friends, and I shall be sure to win her heart. I shall be so kind
and good and considerate to her, treat her with so much delicacy and
devotion, that she cannot help feeling grateful to me; and then the
transition to love will be easy and natural. But when once I have won
her, made her wholly mine, then she shall pay dearly for what she has
made me suffer. Yes, my lady, I mean to have my revenge--you may rest
assured of that."
CHAPTER XV. MALARTIC AT WORK
If the Duke of Vallombreuse had been furious after his unsuccessful
visit to Isabelle, the Baron de Sigognac was not less so, when, upon his
return that evening, he learned what had taken place during his absence.
The tyrant and Blazius were almost obliged to use force to prevent his
rushing off, without losing a minute, to challenge the duke to mortal
combat--a challenge sure to be refused; for de Sigognac, being neither
the brother nor husband of the injured fair one, had no earthly right
to call any other gentleman to account for his conduct towards her; in
France all men are at liberty to pay their court to every pretty woman.
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