[The Trespasser Complete by Gilbert Parker]@TWC D-Link bookThe Trespasser Complete CHAPTER XIV 3/42
The Bullier, the cafes in the Latin Quarter, apartments in a humble street, dining for one-franc-fifty, supping with actresses, posing for the King of Ys with that actress in his arms--all excellent in their way.
But now there was needed an entanglement, intrigue, amour, and then America should shriek at his picture of one of the British aristocracy, and a gentleman of the Commons, "on the loose," as he put it. He would head it: "ARISTOCRAT, POLITICIAN, LIBERTINE!" Then, under that he would put: "CAN THE ETHIOPIAN CHANGE HIS SKIN, OR THE LEOPARD HIS SPOTS ?" Jer.xi.
23. The morality of such a thing? Morality only had to do with ruining a girl's name, or robbery.
How did it concern this? So Mr.Meyerbeer kept his ears open.
Presently one of the students said to Bagshot, a young artist: "How does the dompteuse come on ?" "Well, I think it's chic enough.
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