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The services of young D------n were accepted, and he was happy.
He then wrote to his former mistress, saying, that anxious to give
her a proof of his sincere attachment he had visited mademoiselle
Lubert, that he might leave her at leisure to receive the visits
of the prince de la Trimouille.
Madame de Blessac, stung to the quick, quarrelled with the prince,
who was excessively enraged with his rival; and there certainly
would have been an affair between these two gentlemen, had not
the king preserved the peace by sending his gentleman to St.
Petersburg as
to the embassy. 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.
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