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Serge Panine

CHAPTER V
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Did Micheline tell you the gentleman's name ?" "I met him when I came here; he was with her in the garden.

We were introduced to each other." "That was good taste," said Madame Desvarennes with irony.

"Oh, he is a youth who is not easily disturbed, and in his most passionate transports will not disarrange a fold of his cravat.

You know he is a Prince?
That is most flattering to the Desvarennes! We shall use his coat-of-arms as our trade-mark.

The fortune hunter, ugh! No doubt he said to himself, 'The baker has money--and her daughter is agreeable.' And he is making a business of it." "He is only following the example of many of his equals.


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