The things we do!

Sometimes she looked plump, on other occasions wofully
thin. "When she goes into the world," said the same chronicler, "ma
cousine surrounds herself with jupons--c'est pour defendre sa vertu: when
she is in a devotional mood, she gives up rouge, roast meat, and
crinoline, and fait maigre absolument." To spite the Duke her husband,
she took up with the Vicomte de Florac, and to please herself she cast
him away. She took his brother, the Abbe de Florac, for a director, and
presently parted from him. "Mon frere, ce saint homme ne parle jamais de
Madame la Duchesse, maintenant," said the Vicomte. "She must have
confessed to him des choses affreuses--oh, oui!--affreuses ma parole
d'honneur!"
The Duke d'Ivry being archiroyaliste, Madame la Duchesse must make
herself ultra-Philippiste. "Oh, oui! tout ce qu'il y a de plus Madame
Adelaide au monde!" cried Florac. "She raffoles of M. le Regent. She used
to keep a fast of the day of the supplice of Philippe Egalite, Saint and
Martyr.


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