"
Mere Malheur poured out a glass of choice Beaume from a dame-jeanne
which she had received from a roguish sailor, who had stolen it from
his ship.
"But you have not told me who she is, Dame Dodier," replied Mere
Malheur, refilling the glass of La Corriveau.
"Nor will I yet. She is fit to be your mistress and mine, whoever
she is; but I shall not go again to see her."
And La Corriveau did not again visit the house of Angelique. She
had received from her precise information respecting the movements
of the Intendant. He had gone to the Trois Rivieres on urgent
affairs, and might be absent for a week.
Angelique had received from Varin, in reply to her eager question
for news, a short, falsified account of the proceedings in the
Council relative to Caroline and of Bigot's indignant denial of all
knowledge of her.
Varin, as a member of the Council, dared not reveal the truth, but
would give his familiars half-hints, or tell to others elaborate
lies, when pressed for information. He did not, in this case, even
hint at the fact that a search was to be made for Caroline.
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