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Updated: May 15, 2025
This man who in his early youth had felt honored by a marriage with the almost declassee widow of a creole planter now stretched out his hand that he might take to himself a woman not merely royal but imperial. At first he sought the sister of the Czar of Russia; but Alexander entertained a profound distrust of the French emperor, and managed to evade the tentative demand.
But that sort of curiosity might prove pretty expensive if you gratified it. Talk about the clutch of a drowning person! It's nothing to the clutch of a déclassée woman. And if she's been somebody once who really mattered, and somebody you were really fond of ... Because it is no use. They can't ever come back." Violet stirred in her chair.
"I've always noticed," said Carter, with a smile, "that so soon as a girl is declassee, she develops a purpose in life and gets earnest, and all that sort of thing. "Oh, well, come," growled George Hands, "Travis Bessemer is not declassee." "I didn't say she was," answered Carter; "but she has made herself talked about a good deal lately.
"Why, I tell you, and you whisper it to the next man, and we pretend not to believe it, and call the Riffs liars. As I say, we're none of us here for our health, Holcombe, and a public opinion that's manufactured by déclassée women and men who have run off with somebody's money and somebody's else's wife isn't strong enough to try a man for beating his own slave."
Nothing but success, but la gloire, could ever lift me into his world. Then indeed I should be everybody's equal, and it would matter to nobody that I had been a Bohemian and a declassee. She gave a little sigh of excitement, and threw her head back to look at her picture, David watched her. 'I thought, he said ironically, 'that a few minutes ago you were all for Bohemia.
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