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Updated: May 18, 2025

Evidently he had come direct from Warsaw to the Place de la Trinite-des- Monts. A prey to what delirium of passion? Dorsenne had not time to ask the question any more than he had presence of mind to compose his manner to such severity that it would cut short all familiarity on the part of his strange visitor. At the noise made by the opening of the antechamber door, Boleslas started up.

Paul Bourget - Cosmopolis — Volume 1

But he was no longer the traveller who, thirty-six hours before, had arrived at the Place de la Trinite-des- Monts, mad with anxiety, wild with jealousy, soiled by the dust of travel, his hair disordered, his hands and face dirty. It was, though somewhat thinner, the elegant Gorka whom Dorsenne had known tall, slender, and perfumed, in full dress, a bouquet in his buttonhole, his lips smiling.

Paul Bourget - Cosmopolis — Volume 2