that she must die one day, and then not
D shock him in the rapscallion architect's stories, what wounded his love
without weakening it, was all the rather squalid elements these narratives
implied in the actress's young days. Of all things in the world he thought
anything sordid the most repugnant. Monsieur Tudesco, feeling sure his
brandy-cherries would be paid for, did not trouble himself to talk, and the
conversation was languishing when the architect remarked casually: "By-the-by!
As I was going to Bellevue yesterday on business of my own, I came upon that
actress of yours, young man, at her gate... oh! a rubbishy little villa, run up
to last through a love affair, standing in six square yards of garden, meant to
give a stock-broker some sort of notion what the country's like She invited me
in--but what was the use?"... She was at Bellevue! Jean forgot all the
humiliating details the old man had told him, retaining the one fact only, that
she was at Bellevue and it was possible to see her there in the sweet intimacy
of the country. He got up to go. Monsieur Tudesco caught him by the skirt of
his jacket to detain him: "My young friend, you have my admiration; for I see
you rise on daring pinions above the hindrances of a lowly station to the
realms of beauty, fame and wealth. You will yet cull the splendid blossom that
fascinates you, at least I hope so. But how much better had you loved a simple
work-girl, whose affections you could have beguiled by offering her a penn'orth
of fried potatoes and a seat among the gods to see a melodrama. I fear you are
a dupe of men's opinion, for one woman is not very different from another, and
it is opinion, that mistress of the world, and nothing else, which sets a high
price on some and a low one on others. Do you profit, my young and very dear
friend, by the experience afforded me by the v
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