Horatio Thought No More On The Affair Of Madame De Olonne And Monsieur
De Coigney, From The Time He Had Been Cleared Of Having Any Concern With
That Lady, Yet Was That Night's Adventure Productive Of What He Looked
Upon As The Greatest Misfortune Could Befal Him.
But to make this matter
conspicuous to the reader, it is necessary to give a brief detail of the
circumstances that led to it.
This lady, who was wife to the baron de Olonne, was one of the most
beautiful, and most vicious women in the kingdom; she entertained a
great number of lovers; but there was none more attached to her, or more
loved by her than young monsieur de Coigney: he had for a long time
maintained a criminal correspondence with her, to the great trouble of
all his friends, who endeavoured all they could, but in vain, to wean
him from her: he had lately a recounter with one of her former lovers,
which had like to have cost him his life; and it was with great
difficulty, and as much as the relations on both sides could do, by
representing to the king that they were set upon by street-robbers, that
they avoided the punishment the law inflicts on duelists. De Coigney was
but just recovered of the hurts he had received, when, so far from
resolving to quit the occasion of them, he made an appointment to meet
her at the masquerade: - they had described to each other the habit they
intended to wear, when, as he was preparing for the rendezvous, an
express came from the king, commanding his immediate attendance at
Marli, where the court then was:
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