Rose, Blanche, and Violet, Volume II by George Henry Lewes

Sa pensée est un monde son cœur un abîme; / C'est ainsi qu'elle va, forte, de crime en crime / Bravant impunément et la peuple et la cour / Ne méritant que haine et n'inspirant qu'amour! / MAD. EMILE GIRARDIN. -- _Cléopatre_.

Poor Meredith Vyner was tormented with jealousy. He had blindly credited his wife, when she told him that she sought to bring about a match between Marmaduke and Violet, and had rivalled her in his attentions to the bold suitor, who was to wed this imperious girl. But from time to time he had felt twinges of jealousy. It seemed to him that Marmaduke was a great deal too attentive to his wife. He dared not make any remark; but he observed it with pain. Now, that Violet was away, and he saw Marmaduke still more assiduous in his visits, saw him daily in the house, and closeted with his wife for hours together, his suspicions began to assume a more galling fixity.