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Rh resided. She has cut off all her long fair hair—absolutely her principal ornament. There are always two sides to a story; and the other version of this is, that the beautiful hair was severed out of pique to the husband, not out of tenderness to the lover's manes. The Marquis had, in a most husbandly and hard-hearted manner, refused his consent to a fête which Madame's heart was set upon giving. The next morning, desirous of making his peace, and yet keeping his resolution, he entered while her toilette was going on, and began to admire the luxuriant and bright hair that fell over her shoulders. Without speaking a word, she snatched up the scissors, and, cutting off her curls with relentless rapidity—'Voilà, Monsieur!' said she, throwing them towards him, and turning her back."

"It puts me in mind," exclaimed Guido, "of one of our Italian harlequins, who, greatly enraged with some one beyond his reach, says, 'As I can't kill my enemy, I will kill myself—I must be revenged on some one.' "

"Alas!" said De Joinville, "I must take my leave, for the Cardinal holds a levee to-day, and let those fail in attendance who want nothing. Now, I want a benefice which is just vacant. You have no idea how poor the court is; nobody