semisuffocation

Updated: May 10, 2025

And with that she carried La Faloise off into the lobby, while the other gentlemen once more resigned themselves to their fate and to semisuffocation and the masqueraders drank on the stairs and indulged in rough horseplay and guttural drunken jests. On the stage above Bordenave was wild with the sceneshifters, who seemed never to have done changing scenes.

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