To this monstrous declaration Rogier laconically rejoins:--

"You may not." Then placing his lips close to her ear, he adds in a

whisper, "If all prosper, as planned, _you will not_!"

She neither starts, nor seeks to inquire further. She knows he has

conceived some scheme to disembarrass her of a husband, she no longer

care? for, to both become inconvenient. And from what has gone before,

she can rely on Rogier with its execution.

Volume Three, Chapter XVII.

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