Jean-Louis Ebenezer Reynier had once served in Egypt with Davout. Later, after he returned to France with General Destaing, they dueled, but no one died because Georgiana intervened. Reynier was sent to Nièvre Department, while Destaing, recuperating at the Versailles Army Hospital, reunited with Davout, who was also stationed in Versailles.
He had a Greek slave girl by his side. The girl spoke the languages of several Mediterranean countries. She had been kidnapped by Berber pirates as a child and sold to Egypt. Destaing had found it convenient to keep her with him then, but now that he had returned home and had a wife of his own, it was no longer convenient to keep the slave girl. Davout was currently alone, so Destaing casually gave the slave girl to him.
Davout did not know what to do with the girl either. Napoleon had arranged a marriage for him, to Amy Leclerc, Leclerc's sister. Since he happened to know that Georgiana was hiring people, he gave the slave girl to Georgiana.
The girl was named Bailier. She had wavy black curls and blue eyes like the Aegean Sea. Perhaps because she came from the "East," she looked very different from ordinary white girls, and there was a submissiveness in her eyes.
The fact that slavery was legal meant Georgiana could dispose of the girl as she pleased. If anything Georgiana entrusted to Bailier was lost, or if she leaked any secrets, Georgiana could kill her without a trial.
But Georgiana did not intend to do that. Madame du Barry's slaves had followed the woman who freed them. If Georgiana rashly freed Bailier, she might end up on the streets, so Georgiana simply treated her as an interpreter and document keeper who required no wages.
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