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MADAME DE MAUVES.

at any rate, would like to have the comfort of feeling that his wife was as corruptible as himself; and you 'll hardly believe me when I tell you that he goes about intimating to gentlemen whom he deems worthy of the knowledge, that it would be a convenience to him to have them make love to her."