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At one o'clock on the 16th I went to the Rue d'Antin The voice of the

auctioneer could be heard from the outer door The rooms were crowded

with people There were all the celebrities of the reat ladies who had again

seized the opportunity of the sale in order to be able to see, close at

hand, wo, and

whom they envied perhaps in secret for their easy pleasures The Duchess

of F elbowed Mlle A, one of the most melancholy examples of our

modern courtesan; the Marquis de T hesitated over a piece of furniture

the price of which was being run high by Mant and

famous adulteress of our ti hi himself in

Madrid, and who, as a matter of fact, never even reaches the limit of

his income, talked with Mme M, one of our wittiest story-tellers, who

frons what she writes, while

at the salances with Mme de N, a

fair ornament of the Champs-Elysees, al black horses which Tony had sold her for

10,000 francs, and for which she had paid, after her fashion; finally,

Mlle R, who makes by her mere talent that the women of the world

make by their dot and three times as much as the others make by their