HOW ASSUMPTIVE YOU ARE, TO NAME ME. AND WHILE WE SPEAK OF NAMES: HER NAME WAS AGATHE BRODUER AND, IF THIS WAS THE TRADITIONAL RIDDLE, YOU WOULD HAVE IT. ALAS IT IS A TRUE TALE AND WHAT LACEBRAIN BRODUER DID WAS, CONSULT HER DEAR FRIEND, LORD GIRARDOT, A RENOWN SCHOLAR WHO--ACCORDING TO RUMOR--POSSESSED SOME MINOR SKILL AT DIVINATION, BLESSED AND HOLY. SHE GAVE GIRARDOT THE ENVELOPES THAT HE MIGHT DIVINE THE CORRECT KEY.
AND AS YOU HAVE GUESSED, I STOLE THE PORTRAIT OUT FROM BENEATH HER DARLING NOSE AND REMOVED THE TROUBLE ALTOGETHER.
SHALL I BURN IT? IF THE BARONESS WOULD PREFER IT, I WILL. I ENJOY YOUR CONTROVERSIAL TASTE. YOUR SALON MUST BE HIDEOUSLY DECORATED, AND MOSTLY OUT OF SPITE. I ENJOY DECHAMBREUX'S WORK WITH LIGHT. PERHAPS BEFORE BURNING I WILL TEAR OUT A SCRAP OF IT TO KEEP FOR MYSELF, ISOLATING THE LIGHT. PERHAPS I WILL GLUE IT TO LARELLE'S PIECE WHEN I SECURE IT, AND DISPLAY IT ONLY TO MYSELF, THE MOST DESERVING OF PUBLICS.
HOW DO YOU FIND THE INQUISITION? I HAVE NOT WASTED A THOUGHT ON IT. BUT THEN AGAIN, I HAVE BEEN HARD AT WORK, AS MY LETTER WILL ATTEST. I WILL END THIS LETTER HERE, THAT I MIGHT FETCH KINDLING FOR THE BURNING OF TROIS NYMPHES.
YOU ARE EVER DEMANDING AND NEARLY CLEVER. PLEASE REMAIN SO.
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HOW ASSUMPTIVE YOU ARE, TO NAME ME.
AND WHILE WE SPEAK OF NAMES:
HER NAME WAS AGATHE BRODUER
AND, IF THIS WAS THE TRADITIONAL RIDDLE, YOU WOULD HAVE IT.
ALAS IT IS A TRUE TALE AND WHAT LACEBRAIN BRODUER DID WAS, CONSULT HER DEAR FRIEND, LORD GIRARDOT, A RENOWN SCHOLAR WHO--ACCORDING TO RUMOR--POSSESSED SOME MINOR SKILL AT DIVINATION, BLESSED AND HOLY.
SHE GAVE GIRARDOT THE ENVELOPES THAT HE MIGHT DIVINE THE CORRECT KEY.
AND AS YOU HAVE GUESSED, I STOLE THE PORTRAIT OUT FROM BENEATH HER DARLING NOSE AND REMOVED THE TROUBLE ALTOGETHER.
SHALL I BURN IT? IF THE BARONESS WOULD PREFER IT, I WILL.
I ENJOY YOUR CONTROVERSIAL TASTE. YOUR SALON MUST BE HIDEOUSLY DECORATED, AND MOSTLY OUT OF SPITE.
I ENJOY DECHAMBREUX'S WORK WITH LIGHT. PERHAPS BEFORE BURNING I WILL TEAR OUT A SCRAP OF IT TO KEEP FOR MYSELF, ISOLATING THE LIGHT.
PERHAPS I WILL GLUE IT TO LARELLE'S PIECE WHEN I SECURE IT, AND DISPLAY IT ONLY TO MYSELF, THE MOST DESERVING OF PUBLICS.
HOW DO YOU FIND THE INQUISITION? I HAVE NOT WASTED A THOUGHT ON IT.
BUT THEN AGAIN, I HAVE BEEN HARD AT WORK, AS MY LETTER WILL ATTEST.
I WILL END THIS LETTER HERE, THAT I MIGHT FETCH KINDLING FOR THE BURNING OF TROIS NYMPHES.
YOU ARE EVER DEMANDING AND NEARLY CLEVER. PLEASE REMAIN SO.
DARINGLY,
LE ROI