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"Yes,--I know"

"How do you know?" I asked innocently, affecting surprise

"I used to hear the"

I smiled I did not defend them

"If you should chance to meet, would you be civil to them?"

"Of course, 'Coralie,' 'Odette,' and 'Alice,' the Duchesse has often

described them all! It was 'Coralie' who came to talk to you at

Versailles in the park, was it not?"

Her voice was contemptuously amused and indifferent, but her little

nostrils quivered Underneath she was disturbed I knew

"Yes, Coralie is charly than any other woe to go and have s, twice a week or

oftener?"

"You would refuse to meet them?" I pretended to be annoyed

"Certainly not, one does not do ridiculous things like that I will ht spoil your pleasure if I were

there, unless of course you have told the under the name of your wife--so that they need

not restrain themselves"