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[Witosky]

Ric fans buzzed everywhere, and perspiring in utter indolence beneath
the awnings, one thought in sympathy of those damned souls below, in the
hell of the stoke-hole. At luncheon Liane Delorme appeared in a summery
toilette that would have made its mark on the beach of Deauville.
Voluntary or enforced, her period of retreat had done her good. Making
every allowance for the aid of art, the woman looked years younger than
when Lanyard had last seen her. Nobody would ever have believed her a
day older than twenty-five, no one, that is to say, who had not watched
youth ebb from her face and leave it grey and waste with premature
winter, as Lanyard had that morning when he told her of the death of de
Lorgnes in the restaurant of the Buttes Montmartre. Liane herself had
long since put quite out of mind that mauvais quart d'heure. Her present
serenity was as flawless as the sea's, though, unlike the sea, she
sparkled. She was as gay as any school-girl--though any school-girl
guilty, or even capable, of a scintilla of the amusing impropriety of
her badinage would have merited and won instant expulsion. She
inaugurated without any delay a campaign of conquest extremely diverting
to observe. To Lanyard it seemed that her methods were crude and obvious
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