My mother has never been treated with impertinence before, and the aesthetic impression must have been of extraordinary strength.

I must suppose that it amounted to a sort of moral revolution, I can't account for her proceedings in any other way.

When Rita turned up in Paris a year and a half after Allegre's death some shabby journalist (smart creature) hit upon the notion of alluding to her as the heiress of Mr.
Allegre.

'The heiress of Mr.Allegre has taken up her residence again amongst the treasures of art in that Pavilion so well known to the elite of the artistic, scientific, and political world, not to speak of the members of aristocratic and even royal families.

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