. What I have to say will not interest you in the least."
"I understand."
"But no trickery, you know. I know where the closet of your bedroom
is, well enough to be sure that everything that is said here may be
overheard in it."
Mme. Charman's emissary opened the door; there was a loud rustling
of silks along the corridor; and Jenny appeared in all her glory.
She was no longer the fresh and pretty minx whom Hector had known
--the provoking large-eyed Parisian demoiselle, with haughty head
and petulant grace. A single year had withered her, as a too hot
summer does the roses, and had destroyed her fragile beauty beyond
recall. She was not twenty, and still it was hard to discern that
she had been charming, and was yet young. For she had grown old
like vice; her worn features and hollow cheeks betrayed the
dissipations of her life; her eyes had lost their long, languishing
lids; her mouth had a pitiful expression of stupefaction; and
absinthe had broken the clear tone of her voice. She was richly
dressed in a new robe, with a great deal of lace and a jaunty hat;
yet she had a wretched expression; she was all besmeared with
rouge and paint.
When she came in she seemed very angry.
"What an idea!" she cried, without taking the trouble to bow to
anyone; "what sense is there in sending for me to come here in
this way, almost by force, and by a very impudent young woman?"
Mme. Charman hastened to meet her old customer, embraced her in
spite of herself, and pressed her to her heart.
"Why, don't be so angry, dear--I thought you would be delighted
and overwhelm me with thanks."
"I? What for?"
"Because, my dear girl, I had a surprise in store for you. Ah, I'm
not ungrateful; you came here yesterday and settled your account
with me, and to-day I mean to reward you for it. Come, cheer up;
you're going to have a splendid chance, because just at this moment
I happen to have a piece of exquisite velvet--"
"A pretty thing to bring me here for!"
"All silk, my dear, at thirty f
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John Addington Symonds (October 5, 1840 - April 19, 1893) was an English poet and literary critic. He was an early advocate of the validity of male love which included for him pederastic as well as egalitarian relationships, and which he would refer to as lamour de limpossible.