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The Grand Duchess read the newspapers. She always knew when New York notables were in the city, and she was not slow to express a desire to meet them. He could arrange it, of course. And then, on meeting them, she would at once insist on giving a dinner or a supper at Pre Catalin, or, on finding that they couldn't scrape up a spare evening, to make it afternoon tea.
George Barr McCutcheon - Her Weight in Gold

Men at sixty-five become podagrical and sour, perhaps, but they are not as much worried by thoughts of the poorhouse as they are by visions of the play-house. Corky was to be seen everywhere with the Grand Duchess. He was the life of her big and little feasts at Pre Catalin and D'Armenonville.
George Barr McCutcheon - Her Weight in Gold
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