One day she related to him, with that glow of pleasure in her eyes which proves the sincerity of the speaker's admiration, the feat of a young woman in the reign of Henri in, which she had just discovered in the _Memoires_ by l'Etoile: finding that her husband was unfaithful, she had stabbed him.
Un jour elle lui raconta, avec ces yeux brillants de plaisir qui prouvent la sincérité de l’admiration, ce trait d’une jeune femme du règne de Henri III, qu’elle venait de lire dans les Mémoires de l’Étoile : trouvant son mari infidèle, elle le poignarda.