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The Masters of the Peaks

CHAPTER VIII
19/41

"The more superior you become the greater will be the reward for me when I dispose of you.

You have found the Dove all I promised you she should be, haven't you, Monsieur Lennox ?" "All and more," replied Robert.

"Although she may be out of sight I feel that her eyes are always on me, and this is true of the night as well as the day." "A great woman, the Dove, and a wife to whom I give all credit.

If it should come into the king's mind to call me to Versailles and bestow upon me some kind of an accolade perhaps Madame Langlade would not feel at home in the great palace nor at the Grand Trianon, nor even at the Little Trianon, and maybe I wouldn't either.

But since no such idea will enter His Majesty's mind, and I have no desire to leave the great forests, the Dove is a perfect wife for me.


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