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...Monsieur Doumergue fondled the Queen. "How much," he asked, "is she worth...
...Monsieur le President," said the suite member, "step in, and I will present you to the Queen of Holland...
...Barnes and his solicitor tripped that scheme. Monsieur Ripois' pupils dwindled away. Again poverty sniffed under his door. He decided he had loved, really loved, Ella. He would go back, say he was sorry, marry...
Ella beheld Monsieur Ripois on Dollis Hill, stretching his arms to the spring sunshine in thanksgiving for his wellbeing, in vague supplication for something pure and fresh, possibly a new woman. Later, when he approached her, an erect, full-bosomed child-virgin, she did not see a little cad of 30-odd with a pale, muggy face, but remembered a man whose gesture had expressed the wonder she awaited in life. She made a dream of him, managed their whole affair in calm unquestioning ecstasy-quite the best affair he had ever had, thought Monsieur Ripois, until she told...
...went. Ella's blind uncle proudly told him that the lorry had crushed her by accident. Monsieur Ripois knew better-much better. Pilfering meanly from life, he had failed to perceive and accept its rich free gift. The grief that came upon him, the suffering through another that he learned, was too great for even his cynical, acquisitive ego to shake off. Returning to France to beg on the roads, thought he: "How careful you have...