That Venetian affair, the beginning of it and the end of it, was nothing but a _coup de tete_, and all those activities in which I am involved, as you see (by order of Headquarters, ha, ha, ha!), are nothing but that, all this connection, all this intimacy into which I have dropped.

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Not to speak of my mother, who is delightful, but as irresponsible as one of those crazy princesses that shock their Royal families.

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