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The Duchess of Orleans sat weeping in her cabinet, and yet she had been several times reminded by her tire-women that monsieur awaited her in the drawing-room. She held in her hand a letter-the apparent cause of her unwillingness to move.
"It has terminated as I feared," thought she; "her short-lived happiness has been purchased with her life. T