You do not
know her as I do, Bigot."
"What do you advise, Angelique?" asked he, curious to see what was
working in her brain.
"That if you will not issue a lettre de cachet, you shall place the
lady of Beaumanoir in the hands of the Mere de la Nativite with
instructions to receive her into the community after the shortest
probation."
"Very good, Angelique! But if I do not know the Mere Superior, you
do not know the lady of Beaumanoir. There are reasons why the nuns
would not and could not receive her at all,--even were she willing
to go, as I think she would be. But I will provide her a home
suited to her station in the city; only you must promise to speak to
me no more respecting her."
"I will promise no such thing, Bigot!" said Angelique, firing up
again at the failure of her crafty plan for the disposal of
Caroline, "to have her in the city will be worse than to have her at
Beaumanoir."
"Are you afraid of the poor girl, Angelique,--you, with your
surpassing beauty, grace, and power over all who approach you? She
cannot touch you.
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