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After our second cup of tea Monsieur l’Abbé
entered the drawing-room for his usual afternoon
call. The kind Abbé reproached me for not
having let him know of my return to Paris. The
Count had often enquired about me and would
be delighted to see me. The Countess had gone
to Monte Carlo for a change of air. The Countess
was now in excellent health and spirits.
Unfortunately he could not say the same in regard to
the Count, who had returned to his sedentary
life, spending the whole day in his armchair
smoking his cigars. The Abbé thought he had better
warn me that the Vicomte Maurice was furious
with me for having played such a joke upon him
at Château Rameaux. I had hypnotized both
him and the little village doctor into the belief
that he had colitis in order to prevent him from
gaining the Gold Medal at the shooting
competition of the Société du Tir de France. The Abbé
implored me to keep out of his way, he was known
for his violent, uncontrollable temper, he was
always quarrelling with people, not later than a
month ago he had fought another duel, God
knows what might happen if we met.
“Nothing would happen,” said I. “I have
nothing to fear from this brute, for he is afraid
of me. I proved last autumn in the
smoking-room of the Château Rameaux that I was the
stronger of the two and I am glad to hear from
you that he has not forgotten his lesson. His
one superiority over me is that he can drop a
swallow or a skylark with his revolver at fifty
yards while I should probably miss an elephant at
the same distance. But he is not likely ever to
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