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Updated: May 11, 2025
She was taken about to parties also, and to the opera and very often there were parties at the old lady's house carriage-company, and gentleman in furred coats, who came in hansom cabs. He thought that she had suitors. There was a tall, thin man who came very often in the afternoons. He was sallow and melancholy, and wore a silk muffler day and night.
The pretensions of some of them are evident, but only evident to be ridiculous like the pretensions of those who, newly enriched by trade, decline all but what they describe as carriage-company." "The poor gentry are eager enough to marry money, but that does not prevent them sneering at the way the money is made," Miss Buff said.
Hence it quite naturally happened that in the side alley where the carriage-company walk in fine dry weather, he was on the spot one day when Esther met Madame du Val-Noble. Peyrade, his mulatto in livery at his heels, was airing himself quite naturally, like a nabob who is thinking of no one but himself, in a line with the two women, so as to catch a few words of their conversation.
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