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Victor, with ha a

corner of one of the galleries Mariequita sat nearby, dangling her

legs, watching hi hi down upon theirl had covered her head with her

apron folded into a square pad They had been talking for an hour or

Victor describe the dinner at Mrs

Pontellier's He exaggerated every detail,it appear a veritable

Lucullean feast The floere in tubs, he said The chane was

quaffed fro fro a spectacle than Mrs Pontellier, blazing

with beauty and diamonds at the head of the board, while the other women

were all of theot it into her head that Victor was in love with Mrs Pontellier, and

he gave her evasive answers, frarew sullen and cried a little, threatening to go off and leave him to

his fine ladies There were a dozen men crazy about her at the Cheniere;

and since it was the fashion to be in love with married people, why, she

could run away any time she liked to New Orleans with Celina's husband