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The Pension Vauquer was dark, brown, sordid, graisseuse; but this is in quite a different tone, with high, clear, lightly-draped windows, tender, subtle, almost morbid, colours, and furniture in elegant, studied, reed-like lines. Madame de Maisonrouge reminds me of Madame Hulot do you remember "la belle Madame Hulot?" in Les Barents Pauvres.
Henry James - A Bundle of Letters
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