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masked and muffled lady from a coach at the corner of the Rue de
of age - Marguerite Monvoisin, the daughter of the witch.html">witch - who led
fantastic tapestry of red designs upon a black ground - designs that
candles. Black curtains parted, and from between them stepped a
beads of eyes. She was fantastically robed in a cloak of crimson
eagles in fine gold, which must have been worth a prince's ransom;
design in gold.
"Ah, Vanens!" she said familiarly.
He bowed.
"I bring you," he announced, "a lady who has need of your skill."
And he waved a hand towards the tall cloaked figure at his side.
La Voisin looked at the masked face.
"Velvet faces tell me little, Madame la Marquise," she said calmly.
conceal from me."
There was an exclamation of surprise and anger from Madame de
carry concealed in your heart?"
Madame de Montespan was as credulous as only the very devout can be.
"Since that is so, since you know already what I seek, tell me can
pay well."
La Voisin smiled darkly.
"Obdurate, indeed, is the case that will not yield to such medicine
a few days I shall bring you word. But have you courage for a great
so dismissed the great lady.
Leaving a heavy purse behind her, as Vanens had instructed her, the
initiation, as far as we can ascertain, ended Louis de Vanens's
impatience for the coming of the witch. But when at last La Voisin
which the Marchioness recoiled in horror and some indignation.
The magic that La Voisin suggested involved a coadjutor, the Abbe
Montespan had heard something of these dread sacrificial rites to
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