You can invite cousin
Girard, too, for I owe him something for what he has done for thee."
The young wife promised to return and see her husband. That
evening at the performance at the court she was seated in the
same box with the marquise de Laugeac; the king's glass was
directed towards her the whole time, and at the termination of
the spectacle it was announced to her, that she was to sleep at
the chateau the next evening. The project was never realized.
The next day, according to promise, the young wife went to Paris
with the valet. She informed her husband of the success which
had befallen her, and he appeared delighted. Dinner being ready,
they seated themselves at table, ate and drank. Girard began to
laugh at his cousin for his complaisance, when suddenly all desire
to jest left him. He experienced most horrible pains, and his
cousin suffered as well as himself. "Wretches!" said Gaubert to
them, "did you think I would brook dishonor? No, no! I have
deceived you both the better to wreak my vengeance. I am now
happy. Neither king nor valet shall ever possess my wife. I have
poisoned you, and you must die." The two victims implored his
pity. "Yes," said he to his wife, "thy sufferings pain me, and
I will free you from them." e then plunged a knife to her heart;
and, turning to Girard, said, "As for thee, I hate thee too much
to kill thee; die. "And he left him.
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