M. D------n went to
Russia, therefore, and on his return came to see me, and is now one
of the most welcome and agreeable of the men of my private circle.
As to madame de Blessac, she continued to carry on the war in
grand style. Her husband dying she married again a foolish count,
three parts ruined, and who speedily dissipated the other quarter
of his own fortune and the whole of his wife's. Madame Ramosky
then attacked the rich men of the day one after another. One
alone stood out against her; it was M. de la Garde, who had been
one of my admirers. Madame Ramoski wrote to him; he did not
answer. At length she determined on visiting him, and wrote him
a note, to say that she should call upon him about six o'clock in
the evening. What did M. de la Garde? Why he gave a ball on
that very evening; and, when madame Ramoski reached his hotel,
she found it illuminated. As she had come quite unprepared she
was compelled to return as she came, very discontentedly.
But to leave madame de Blessac and M. D------n, and to talk of
my own matters. We had at this period a very great alarm at the
chateau, caused by the crime of a man, who preferred rather to
assassinate his wife than to allow her to dishonor him. It is
worthy of narration.
A pretty shopkeeper of Paris, named Gaubert, who lived in the
rue de la Montagne Sainte- Genevieve, had recently married a
woman much younger than himself.
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