In The Multiplicity Of Those Reflections Which His Own Affairs
Had Occasioned Him, He Had Entirely Forgot The Lady In The Window; And
Imagining Some Other Accident Had Happened Which Should Make Him Appear
Yet More Guilty In The Eyes Of Charlotta, Ask'd Her, With Some
Impatience, What She Meant?
Don't you remember, answered she, that you
brought me a message from a certain lady?
Yes, madam, said he, and in
that, thought I did no more than my duty obliged me to, as she seemed
under some perplexity, which I supposed she was impatient to
acquaint you with.
You judged rightly, indeed, resumed de Coigney; but had you known how
gladly I would have dispensed with the honour of her confidence, I dare
answer you would have spared it me: - I'll tell you, my dear, pursued she
turning to Charlotta, for the secrets of this lady are pretty universal;
and I am certain that I have heard from no less than fifty different
persons, that very affair she was in such a hurry to inform me of last
night: you must needs have heard of the amour between madam la Boissy
and the chevalier de Mourenbeau? frequently, replied Charlotta; her
ridiculous jealousies of him have long been the jest of the whole court;
and I never go to Marli or Versailles, but I am told of some new
instance of it. And yet to relate a long story of her passion, and his
ingratitude, said mademoiselle de Coigney, was I last night dragged into
a dark corner, and deprived for an hour together of all the pleasures of
the masquerade:
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