DEVIOUSNESS

I want to acquaint you closely with my plans: but swear to me as my faithful chevalier you will not engage in any other affair until you have brought this one to a conclusion. It is worthy of a hero: you will serve both love and revenge; and, finally, it will be one more rouerie to put in your Memoirs: yes, in your Memoirs, for I want them to be published one day, and I shall take it upon myself to write them. But let us leave that aside and come back to what I have in mind.

(Letter II, The Marquise de Merteuil to the Vicomte de Valmont)