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An Old Maid

CHAPTER V
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What _is_ her name, do you know?
Suzette! Though I have lodgings at Madame Lardot's, I know her girls only by sight.

If this Suzette is a tall, fine, saucy girl, with gray eyes, a slim waist, and a pretty foot, whom I have occasionally seen, and whose behavior always seemed to me extremely insolent, she is far superior in manners to du Bousquier.

Besides, the girl has the nobility of beauty; from that point of view the marriage would be a poor one for her; she might do better.

You know how the Emperor Joseph had the curiosity to see the du Barry at Luciennes.

He offered her his arm to walk about, and the poor thing was so surprised at the honor that she hesitated to accept it: 'Beauty is ever a queen,' said the Emperor.


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