“How could I, when your sister sings now at the ‘Unusual’ every night and the name ‘Alcide’ flaunts from every placard in London?” “The likeness between us,” she said, “before I began to disfigure myself with rouge and ill-dressed hair, was remarkable. Ann Veronica could at the same time ask herself what this queer old gentleman could have meant by speaking to her, and know—know in general terms, at least—what that accosting signified. The ribald demons that infested the back of Ann Veronica’s mind urged various facetious interrogations upon her, as, for example, where the witness had acquired his prose style. Never before had any human being kissed her lips. Then he stood up and hailed a fiacre. Shari tried a dozen new makeups on her, and Cathy spritzed her with her best perfume, Chanel Number Five. He left the room, presumably to sleep elsewhere, but the only other room with a fire was the servant’s quarters. He looked at his friend. “And somehow or other,” she added, after a long interval, “I must pay Mr. Mesdames Thierry and Poussaint appeared delighted to meet Gerald, and he was obliged to do the pretty to their daughters too.
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