His pleasures, as Sir Lucius knew, would soon pall; for he easily perceived that the Duke was not heartless enough for a rou.
Marie Christine de Brignole had married at eighteen a rou of forty, the former lover of her mother.
There stood the rou—the duellist—and, with all his faults, the hero too!
Now which of the two is preferable—the pride of a virtuous youth, or the rou exhausted and worn out by sexual abuses?
For no one doubted but that he was as dangerous a rou as his hero.
