Lord Arthur Savile's Crime谷月社, 30. 10. 2015 It was Lady Windermere’s last reception before Easter, and Bentinck House was even more crowded than usual. Six Cabinet Ministers had come on from the Speaker’s Levée in their stars and ribands, all the pretty women wore their smartest dresses, and at the end of the picture-gallery stood the Princess Sophia of Carlsrühe, a heavy Tartar-looking lady, with tiny black eyes and wonderful emeralds, talking bad French at the top of her voice, and laughing immoderately at everything that was said to her. It was certainly a wonderful medley of people. Gorgeous peeresses chatted affably to violent Radicals, popular preachers brushed coat-tails with eminent sceptics, a perfect bevy of bishops kept following a stout prima-donna from room to room, on the staircase stood several Royal Academicians, disguised as artists, and it was said that at one time the supper-room was absolutely crammed with geniuses. In fact, it was one of Lady Windermere’s best nights, and the Princess stayed till nearly half-past eleven. As soon as she had gone, Lady Windermere returned to the picture-gallery, where a celebrated political economist was solemnly explaining the scientific theory of music to an indignant virtuoso from Hungary, and began to talk to the Duchess of Paisley. She looked wonderfully beautiful with her grand ivory throat, her large blue forget-me-not eyes, and her heavy coils of golden hair....
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... Lady Windermere , ' and is most interesting about it . ' ' Good heavens ! ' said the Duchess to herself , ' he is a sort of cheiropodist after all . How very dreadful . I hope he is a foreigner at any rate . It wouldn't be quite so bad ...
... Lady Windermere, 'any amount of them. Next year, for instance, I am in great danger, both by land and sea, so I am going to live in a balloon, and draw up my dinner in a basket every evening. It is all written down on my little finger ...
... cried Lady Windermere . ' Nothing would give me greater pleasure , ' said Mr. Podgers , bowing , ' if the Duchess ever had been , but I am sorry to say that I see great permanence of affection , combined ... cried Lady Windermere .
... Lady Windermere , ' absolutely true ! Flora keeps two dozen collie dogs at Macloskie , and would turn our town house ... cried Lady Windermere , laughing , ' only I like lions better than collie dogs . ' ' Your one mistake , Lady ...
... Lady Windermere , ' cried the Marchioness of Jedburgh , ' do let Mr. Podgers stay here a little longer . He has just told me I should go on the stage , stage , and I am so interested . ' ' If he has told you that , Lady Jedburgh , I ...
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