Chapter 77
IN WHAT RESPECT M. DE ST. LUC WAS MORE CIVILIZED THAN M. DE BUSSY, THE LESSONS WHICH HE GAVE HIM, AND THE USE WHICH M. DE BUSSY MADE OF THEM. St. Luc returned, proud of having executed his commission so well. Bussy thanked him, but looked sad, which was not natural to him. "Have I done badly?" said St. Luc. "Ma foi, my dear friend, I only regret you did not say, 'at once.'" "Why! what is the hurry?" "I wish to die as soon as possible." St. Luc looked at him in astonishment. "Die! at your age, with your name, and Diana!" "Yes, I shall kill them, I know, but I shall receive some good blow which will tranquilize me forever." "What black ideas, Bussy!" "A husband whom I thought dead, and who has returned to life; a wife who can scarcely quit the bedside of the pretended dying man. No
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