Ten Years Later: Louise de la Valliere by Alexandre Dumas Chapter 37 Page 28

“You do not believe it, I trust?”

“He who wrote me so does not sign his letter.”

“An anonymous denunciation!

some treachery, be assured,” said Miss Grafton.

“Stay,” said Raoul, showing the young girl a letter which he had read over a thousand times; she took it from his hand and read as follows:

“VICOMTE, — You are perfectly right to amuse yourself yonder with the lovely faces of Charles II.’s court, for at Louis XIV.’s court, the castle in which your affections are enshrined is being besieged. Stay in London altogether, poor vicomte, or return without delay to Paris.”

“There is no signature,”