Saltus Edgar. The Perfume of Eros: A Fifth Avenue Incident
THE PERFUME OF EROS
CHAPTER I. A MAN OF FASHION
CHAPTER II. THE POCKET VENUS
CHAPTER III. THE EX-FIRST LADY
CHAPTER IV. ENCHANTMENT
CHAPTER V. MARIE CHANGES HER NAME
CHAPTER VI. THE YELLOW FAY
CHAPTER VII. SWEET-AND-TWENTY
CHAPTER VIII. TWO IN A TURRET
CHAPTER IX. FANNY CHANGES HER CLOTHES
CHAPTER X. A VICTIM
THE GENERAL SESSIONS
CHAPTER I. DISENCHANTMENT
CHAPTER II. THE MOTE IN THE EYE
CHAPTER III. THE GATES OF LIFE
CHAPTER IV. THE RETURN OF THE YELLOW FAY
CHAPTER V. EXIT FANNY
CHAPTER VI. WHAT THE PAPERS SAID
CHAPTER VII. HELD WITHOUT BAIL
CHAPTER VIII. THE DEFENDANT TO THE BAR
CHAPTER IX. THE TWELFTH JUROR
CHAPTER X. THE VERDICT
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It was in Gramercy Park. As you may or may not know, Gramercy Park is the least noisy spot in the metropolitan Bedlam. Without being unreasonably aristocratic it is sedate and what agents call exclusive.
The park itself is essentially that. Its design is rather English. The use is restricted to adjoining residents. About it is a fence of high iron. Within are trees, paths, grasses, benches, great vases and a fountain. But none of the usual loungers, none of the leprous men, rancid women, and epileptic children that swarm in other New York squares. Yet these squares are open to all. To enter this park you must have a key. By day it is a playground. Nurse-maids come there with little boys and girls, the subdued, undemonstrative, beautifully dressed children of the rich. At night it is empty as a vacant bier.
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Annandale laughed. "Grow on me," he repeated. "I like that. Why, I am cultivating it."
"Very. She is the prettiest girl in New York. But you are the best and the dearest. What is more, you are an angel."
