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A tie-up to one man, hein? to what good? and yet who can say to be an honored wife is the one experience I do not know yet!" she laughed again . "And who is Georgine you have not spoken of her before, Suzette?" She reddened a little under her new terra cotta rouge. "No? Oh! Georgine is my little first mistake but I have her beautifully brought up, Nicholas with the Holy Mother at St. Brieux.
'My dear, he said, 'you must take that to the police. 'I'll send it to-morrow morning, says the charming Georgine, 'but I wished to show you my good luck. Of course nobody came forward to claim the bracelet, and a month later Madame de Versannes appeared at the Cranfords' ball with a brilliant diamond bracelet, worn like the Queen of Sheba's, high up on her arm, near the shoulder, to hide the lack of sleeve.
Well, by an extraordinary, chance the Marquise de Versannes aye, the lovely Georgine de Versannes herself had picked up this bracelet in the street by chance, as it were. "It so happened," said the Colonel, "that I was at her mother-in-law's, where she was going to dine. She came in looking as innocent as you please, with her hand in her pocket. 'Oh, see what I have found! she cried.
Then the Colonel went on to demonstrate, with many coarse insinuations, that that good Georgine, as he familiarly called her, had done many more things than people gave her credit for. And he went on to add: "Surely, you must have heard of the row about her between Givrac and the Homme-Volant at the Cirque?" "What, the man that wears stockinet all covered with gold scales? Do tell us, Colonel!"
Then the Colonel went on to demonstrate, with many coarse insinuations, that that good Georgine, as he familiarly called her, had done many more things than people gave her credit for. And he went on to add: "Surely, you must have heard of the row about her between Givrac and the Homme- Volant at the Cirque?" "What, the man that wears stockinet all covered with gold scales? Do tell us, Colonel!"
'My dear, he said, 'you must take that to the police. 'I'll send it to-morrow morning, says the charming Georgine, 'but I wished to show you my good luck. Of course nobody came forward to claim the bracelet, and a month later Madame de Versannes appeared at the Cranfords' ball with a brilliant diamond bracelet, worn like the Queen of Sheba's, high up on her arm, near the shoulder, to hide the lack of sleeve.
Well, by an extraordinary, chance the Marquise de Versannes aye, the lovely Georgine de Versannes herself had picked up this bracelet in the street by chance, as it were. "It so happened," said the Colonel, "that I was at her mother-in-law's, where she was going to dine. She came in looking as innocent as you please, with her hand in her pocket. 'Oh, see what I have found! she cried.
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