"Ah," I said, "I know what you are looking for! Some connection

Europe or Cabinet ministers with plump fingers tight-pressed to the

throat of France. She belonged to this Bois society, occupied a

prominent place in it, was known in every capital and asked about by

every foreigner. The splendors of this crowd were enhanced by the

madness of her profligacy as though it were the very crown, the

darling passion, of the nation. Then there were unions of a night,

continual passages of desire, which she lost count of the morning

after, and these sent her touring through the grand restaurants and

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