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Baron Trigault's Vengeance by Émile Gaboriau
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Meanwhile the marquis gayly continued: "You see, I'm going to make
a change in my mode of life. Ah! it surprises you! But one must
make an end of it, sooner or later. I begin to find a bachelor
life not so very pleasant after all; there is rheumatism in
prospect, and my digestion is becoming impaired--in short, I feel
that it is time for marriage, baron; and--I am about to marry."

"You!"

"Yes, I. What, haven't you heard of it, yet? It has been talked
of at the club for three days or more."

"No, this is the first intimation I have received of it. It is
true, however, that I have not been to the club for three days. I
have made a wager with Kami-Bey, you know--that rich Turk--and as
our sittings are eight or ten hours long, we play in his
apartments at the Grand Hotel. And so you are to be married," the
baron continued, after a slight pause. "Ah, well! I know one
person who won't be pleased."

"Who, pray?"

"Ninette Simplon."

M. de Valorsay laughed heartily. "As if that would make any
difference to me!" he exclaimed. And then in a most confidential
manner he resumed: "She will soon be consoled. Ninette Simplon is
a shrewd girl--a girl whom I have always suspected of having an
account book in place of a heart. I know she has at least three
hundred thousand francs safely invested; her furniture and
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