In a Winter City

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Marie Louise de la Ramée. In a Winter City

In a Winter City

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IN A WINTER CITY

A Sketch

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

CHAPTER IX

CHAPTER X

CHAPTER XI

CHAPTER XII

CHAPTER XIII

CHAPTER XIV

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Marie Louise de la Ramée

Published by Good Press, 2020

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"Will have done all these things beforehand at some one else's expense, and will have tired of them—or not have tired———; of the display of spine and of the cotillon she will certainly never have tired unless she be fifty———"

"That is not precisely what I mean," said the Duc, caressing his small white moustache. "No; I said well chosen—well chosen. What it can matter to you whether your wife smokes with young men, or reads bad novels, or romps till breakfast, I do not see myself. There is a natural destiny for husbands. The unwise fret over it—the wise profit by it. But considering that you dislike these things in your own wife, however much you like and admire them in the ​wives of other persons, I would still say, avoid our friend of a million vaudevilles—la petite Mees de seize ans. Ignorance is not innocence, it is a great mistake to suppose that it even secures it. Your Mees would seize Belot and Zola à la reveille des noces———. Miladi yonder, for instance, when they come to her from her book-seller's, throws them aside, unread———"

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