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"Is it permitted to admire Madame's horsemanship?" he asked, with a

little bow

Diana coloured faintly and twisted the jade necklace round her fingers

nervously "It is nothing," she said, with a shy smile that his

sympathetic personality evoked in spite of herself "With The Dancer it

is all foolishness and not vice One has to hold on very tightly It

would have been huer Monseigneur would not have approved of the concession to The

Dancer's peculiarities It is an education to ride his horses,

Monsieur"

"It is a strain to the nerves to ride beside sohed with pure a the dreadful ordeal very easy for her "I sympathise,

Monsieur Was Shaitan very vile?"

"If Monsieur de Saint Hubert is trying to suggest to you that he

suffers froh,

"disabuse yourself at once He has none"

Saint Hubert turned to him with a quick sed into a flood of reminiscences

that lasted until the end of dinner

The Vicoazines,