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Updated: June 16, 2025
Lethal and Adonaïs stood apart, conversing. As we approached them unobserved, Dalton checked me. "Hear what these people are saying," said he. "My opinion is," said Lethal, holding out his crooked forefinger like a claw, "that this soi-disant duke what the deuse is his name?" "Rosecouleur," interposed Adonaïs, in a tone of society. "Right, Couleur de Rose is an impostor, an impostor, a sharper.
"Were you at the door when the Duke entered?" "I think not; at least I cannot tell. When I first saw him, he was in the room, speaking with Madam Denslow." "Nalson, you have done wrong; no one should have entered unannounced. Send the doorkeeper to me." The doorkeeper came; a gigantic negro, magnificently attired. "Jupiter, you were at the door when the Duke of Rosecouleur entered?" "Yes, Sir."
Pompous and soft, he "cottoned" to the grandeur with the instinct of a born satellite, and his eyes grew brighter, his body more shining and rotund, his back more concave. His bon-vivant tones, jolly and conventional, sounded a pure barytone to the clear soprano of Honoria, in the harmony of an obsequious welcome. The Duke of Rosecouleur glanced around him approvingly upon the apartments.
The music of the waltz invited a renewal of that intoxicating whirl which isolates friends and lovers, in whispering and sighing pairs, in the midst of a great assemblage. All the world looked on, when Honoria Denslow placed her hand upon the shoulder of the Duke of Rosecouleur, and the noble and beautiful forms began silently and smoothly turning, with a dream-like motion.
The Duke of Rosecouleur arrived at the same instant before her. She smiled sorrowfully upon Dalton, and held out her hand in a languid manner toward the Duke, and again they floated away upon the eddies of the music. I followed them with eyes fixed in admiration. It was a vision of the orgies of Olympus, Zeus and Aphrodite circling to a theme of Chronos.
If you have been so deceived in a picture, may you not be equally cheated in a man? I am loath to offend; but, indeed, the person whom you call Rosecouleur cannot be the Duke of that title, whom I saw in England. I had leave to copy a picture in his gallery. He was often present.
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