Having undressed him and put him to bed, the gentleman said--

“My lord, I will now go and fetch you one who will assuredly not enter

this room without blushing; but I hope that before morning she will have

lost all fear of you.”

Leaving the Duke, he then went to his own room, where he found one of

his servants, to whom he said--

“Are you brave enough to follow me to a place where I desire to avenge

myself upon my greatest living enemy?”

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