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"God!"

The moment he understood the meaning of Calliste's words, Louis wanted to find a gap in the ground to let himself slip in; he immediately let go of the newspaper the Viscount was reading, and turned around. And hastily picked up his share from the table, picked it up to cover his face: "You, how can you say these words here!"

Pride, jealousy, anger, laziness, greed, gluttony, and lust are all crimes stipulated in the doctrine, and lust that violates the laws of nature and does not aim at procreating children is undoubtedly an even higher crime—but no matter what Likewise, it is sinful for a devout believer to imagine these crimes, let alone speak them out to others.

"Your words really hurt me."

Compared to Louis who wanted to bury himself in the newspaper, the Viscount was very at ease. This time, he stretched out his hand, pinched the corner of the newspaper in Louis's hand and pulled it down, so that Louis' face behind the newspaper could be exposed: " Didn't I tell you 'you'd better not know' before I told you? Didn't you insist that I must tell because you were anxious for your friend's safety? Now I tell you that gentleman because some wrong It is saddening that you, who have been sent to a lunatic asylum for proper conduct, should accuse me of the crime of talking too much."

"By the Virgin Mary, don't you say any more!"

He definitely did it on purpose—Louis thought, the pile of "you" made him dizzy, and the too shocking truth made him turn red from head to toe just thinking about it—God, he is now I feel like my whole body is going to burn!

"Since you ask for this, then I must be more respectful than obedient."

Callister let go of Louis' newspaper quite gracefully: "But you can no longer use this as an excuse to accuse me of not telling you all the details-although I think the story It's quite interesting, Mary Troya is a woman who can be considered decisive, if she were a man, she might be able to make a name for herself in Paris."

"..."

This man must be tempting himself to jump into his trap again, just like a hunter has laid out a trap to wait for the prey to jump into - Louis's reason warned him so, but it is undeniable that it is undeniably important to Alred's safety ( After all, that woman is living in their house now!) mixed with curiosity about Moina's past, it still made him hesitate.

However, before the hesitant Louis made up his mind whether to continue to explore the secrets of Moina's past, the attendant Kabo walked in first, and he looked at Louis who blocked himself tightly with newspapers in quite a puzzled way.

"Mr. Louis, your ears and face are very red." Carbo said, he looked left and right: "Does it make you feel too hot here?"

"No, no, I'm fine."

When Cabo asked this, Louis only felt that the temperature of his face was getting higher, but he couldn't tell the truth to his attendants, so he had to answer sullenly.

"I can have someone bring you a glass of sherbet if you want, but logically, the temperature here should be just right," Cabo said, turning to take a cup with a copper lid from the club's waiter. The covered white porcelain plate was delivered to the table: "The Rose Club recently came to a cook from Ibiza, and his specialty is a local dish called 'Horsi Linde' in Ibiza, what do you want now? Would you like to try it?"

"Hoselind? What's that?"

The name of this strange-sounding dish made people very curious. Louis moved the newspaper away a little. He glanced at Callister first, but found that the other party was also looking at him, which undoubtedly frightened him After a jump, he hurriedly pretended that nothing happened, and turned his attention to the plate that Karbo brought up: "That sounds like a person's name."

"Ah, yes, 'Hoselind' is the name of a legendary thief in Ibiza, who robs the rich and gives to the poor, and if he hears at night that someone's home has no food, he will put a bag of grain at that person's door ” Cabo explained, looking at his master and then at Louis—the attendant must have seen something, but he was quite smart not to ask anything beyond his status: “So Ibiza People honor him by putting together soup, eggs, almonds, sugar, and cinnamon, and all the meat they can find, in a dish that bears his name every winter."

As Kabo spoke, he lifted the lid on the porcelain plate, and this peculiar dish of "Horsylinder" appeared in front of Louis: this dish was milky white as a whole, and looked like a solidified dish. The milk jelly, the top is sprinkled with icing sugar and fried almond flakes as a decoration, and the shadow of mashed meat can be seen faintly below it.

And after taking a sip of the "Horselinde" that Kabo scooped into his bowl, Louis was surprised to find that this seemingly unremarkable dish actually tasted quite delicious, which was quite different from the French method and the seasoning was quite exotic; The only bad thing is probably that the chicken inside was mashed too thoroughly, so that it tasted a bit sticky.

"It's sweet!" Louis said to Carbo, and he took another sip unconsciously: "Although I haven't tasted it before, I quite like this taste."

"The cook will be very happy to hear you say that, sir." Karbo said, and he looked at his master: "When our husband tasted this 'Horselind' before, he said that you must I like this kind of taste, and I asked someone to make an order before I came today, after all, it still takes a little time to make this dish."

"This……"

Logically speaking, he should say something to Callister at this time, but Louis stared at the plate in front of him, feeling that his ears were still burning—he didn’t have the courage to thank the Viscount now; but thankfully , After Kabo finished speaking, the waiter of the Rose Club brought a few more dishes: a plate of lobster with egg yolk, white lobster meat mixed with golden egg yolk, just looking at it makes people drool; a plate of rice pudding, rice The flavors of rice, vanilla, milk and cinnamon are just right; there is also a plate of delicious glutinous rice meatloaf, the taste is simply amazing.

In this way, this allowed Louis to temporarily escape from the embarrassing situation, and after the three dishes were served, Cabo led the others out of the private room, and only then did Louis finally have the courage to continue talking to the Viscount.

"You, you said that there are still some things between Mary Troya and her lover." Louis said, in order to avoid falling into the trap of the other party again, he specially emphasized that he was asking "her", and prepared to Cover your ears at all times to avoid words that a pious person should not hear: "What else did she do at that time?"

"Are you sure you want to know?" Callister asked back, and he put the newspaper in his hand on the table unhurriedly: "If I said it, wouldn't you accuse me again? After all, you You just asked me, 'stop talking'."

"me……"

Louis was so embarrassed that he almost wanted to find a hole in the ground, he thought and thought, and had to apologize for what he said just now: "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have talked to you like that just now, please, please tell me—she Will what I have done before affect Al's safety?"

"As long as your friend doesn't provoke her because of his appetite for women, he'll be fine."

After admiring enough of Louis' embarrassment and blushes (rather a nasty hobby!), Callister finally answered slowly, explaining to Louis mercifully: "Mary Troya had an extraordinary A woman's strong sense of revenge, but this kind of revenge is only used on her former lover - Du Meng believes that when her lover's crimes were first exposed and sent to the madhouse, he should still be sober and strong; However, he shouldn't rashly pin all his hopes of getting out of there on Troia. No one knows what method she used, but what is certain is that she must have given him false hope first. , and then destroyed this hope with one hand, so the young man really went crazy, so he finally died in the madhouse."

"what?"

It was such a spine-chilling thing, Louis gasped, he wanted to rush back to 79 St George Street immediately, let Alred chase Moina away - God, so A woman who is so ruthless that she can put her former lover to death, who knows what she will do to them!

With the matter of Moina in the foreground, no matter how delicious the meals at the Rose Club are, how many fun games there are, and even when Callister said "nothing will happen if someone from me is watching her", Louis felt restless.

"It seems that I shouldn't let you know about her, it will only make you more trouble."

When leaving the Rose Club, Callister said to Louis that he seemed a little unhappy: "Since your friend chose to let her stay with him, it is natural that he has a plan, and you are still worried about it." what?"

"I don't think anyone can really feel at ease after knowing such a terrible thing." Louis replied, he opened the curtain of the carriage and looked outside. When he got up, he was worried that Alred hadn't returned to 79 St. George Street, and worried that he had already returned home and found himself leaving the house and following Callister: "We can get home before Al returns. ?"

As they spoke, a light cabriolet passed theirs, and in the open carriage sat a man with a black and white feathered hat and bright blue eyes. The beautiful aristocratic girl with long brown curly hair just turned her head, and she was quite surprised when she saw Callister sitting in this carriage without a badge.

"Ah, Monsieur Vicomte de Durand!"

The lady yelled softly that she recognized the viscount, so both Louis and Callisto had to interrupt their conversation and greet the lady according to the due etiquette However, Louis felt that this lady looked very familiar, but for a while he couldn't remember where he had seen her.

"Whose lady is that?"

After the noble lady's carriage passed by, Louis couldn't help asking Callister, he racked his brains to remember where he had seen the girl: "Ah, yes, at the Viscountess de Bougogne's At the ball, it was the time when His Highness Count Artois came, she danced with Al, and was praised by His Highness!"

"That is Miss Louise de Waterville. Her father is Baron de Waterville. I heard that the baron originally wanted his daughter to stay in the monastery. For some reason, he suddenly Changed my mind."

In this way, it should be an aristocratic lady who was sent to a monastery to be educated like Madeleine, and was not taken back by her family until she was of marriageable age——Louis thought so, and he glanced out of the car window , but found that the lady's carriage stopped in front, as if she wanted to turn around and go back.

"How did her coachman stop in such a place?"

The streets here are not very spacious. After the carriage in front stopped and prepared to turn around, Louis and his carriage had to stop as well; Not much to say, just wait for the carriage in front to be adjusted slowly, but suddenly, things just happened——

- Mademoiselle Louise de Waterville's coachman, perhaps too impatient in turning the direction, lashed his horse, so that the strong horse gave a long neigh, The open carriage crashed head-on into the lamp post of the street lamp.

The carriage overturned, and people passing by on both sides of the street who saw this scene screamed.