Angelique was not mistaken. Bigot saw
her resolution, and, although it was with a mental reservation to
deceive her, he promised to banish Caroline from his chateau.
"It was always my good fortune to be conquered in every passage of
arms with your sex, Angelique," said he, at once radiant and
submissive. "Sit down by me in token of amity."
She complied without hesitation, and sat down by him, gave him her
hand again, and replied with an arch smile, while a thousand
inimitable coquetries played about her eyes and lips, "You speak now
like an amant magnifique, Chevalier!
"'Quelque fort qu'on s'en defende,
Il y faut venir un jour!'"
"It is a bargain henceforth and forever, Angelique!" said he; "but I
am a harder man than you imagine: I give nothing for nothing, and
all for everything. Will you consent to aid me and the Grand
Company in a matter of importance?"
"Will I not? What a question, Chevalier! Most willingly I will aid
you in anything proper for a lady to do!" added she, with a touch of
irony.
"I wish you to do it, right or wrong, proper or improper, although
there is no impropriety in it.
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