Chap.

 1        2|   good thing; that had never proved fallacious. There could
 2        6|   people. Their installation proved a laborious undertaking.
 3        7|      presented himself. That proved the finishing touch. She
 4        8|      for her pastry cook had proved blackguard enough to threaten
 5        9| night of the Petite Duchesse proved supremely disastrous to
 6       10|      begun, the conversation proved amusing. But at dessert
 7       10|      amiability. The dessert proved charming, and the gentlemen
 8       11|   miserable business, and it proved to be the last rift necessary
 9       13|      headache. But the night proved more terrible still; a murder
10       13|      penniless. But then she proved very kind; she advised him
11       13|    prone to every excess and proved the ultimate ruin and destruction
12       13|  arrangement which no longer proved a stumbling block. The whole