"Oh, the women! the women! My dear Murphy, I am very sorry that Madame d'Harville should have formed any acquaintance with this Sarah. So young and charming a woman must suffer by the contact with such an infernal—"
"Talking of infernal creatures," said Murphy, "here is a communication relative to Cecily, the unworthy spouse of the excellent David."
"Between ourselves, my dear Murphy, this audacious métisse[9] well deserves the terrible punishment that her husband, our dear black doctor, has inflicted on the Schoolmaster by monseigneur's order. She has also shed blood, and her unblushing infamy is astounding."
[9] The Creole issue of a white and quadroon slave. The métisses only differ from the whites by some peculiarities hardly perceptible.
"Yet she is so very handsome,—so seductive! A perverted mind within an attractive outside always inspires me with twofold disgust."
"In this sense Cecily is doubly hateful. But I hope that this despatch annuls the last orders issued by monseigneur with regard to this wretched creature."
"On the contrary, baron."
"My lord, then, desires that her escape from the fortress in which she had been shut up for life may be effected?"
"Yes."
"And that her pretended ravisher should bring her to France,—to Paris?"