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The next day , amid despairing tears , Mme de Langeais took her resolution . Her man of business came for an interview , and no doubt received instructions of some kind . Afterwards she sent for the Vidame de Pamiers ; and while she waited , she wrote a letter to M. de Montriveau . The Vidame punctually came towards two o'clock that afternoon , to find his young cousin looking white and worn , but resigned ; never had her divine loveliness been more poetic than now in the languor of her agony . `` You owe this assignation to your eighty-four years , dear cousin , '' she said . `` Ah ! do not smile , I beg of you , when an unhappy woman has reached the lowest depths of wretchedness .