Chapter

 1 1 |   seriously acquired. Not being old enough to invent, I content
 2 1 |    luxury, before the coming of old age, the courtesan's first
 3 1 |    sadder in the world than the old age of vice, especially
 4 1 |   except to bid her nourish her old age as she herself had nourished
 5 1 |        infant only a few months old, from whom her arrest was
 6 2 |       said to be living with an old duke, a foreigner, enormously
 7 2 |      duke. It was a blow to the old man, for the resemblance
 8 2 |        the debauchery of a rich old man, and everything was
 9 2 |       and the hot breath of her old life came back across her
10 3 |     shall perhaps save, and, as old women say when they offer
11 4 |      friend! your Marguerite of old times is sadly changed.
12 5 |         was the mistress of the old Duke of . . ." ~"Was she
13 5 |     first time he came here; an old pal of hers, I suppose,
14 8 |         protection of a jealous old duke." ~"'Protection' is
15 8 |         replied Prudence. "Poor old man, he would be greatly
16 8 |        life to have been in the old man's place. ~When they
17 8 |         in her direction. ~"The old duke is at your neighbours,"
18 8 |    position for her, while this old duke might die any day.
19 8 |         duke might die any day. Old men are egoists; his family
20 8 |      and I should soon send the old man about his business.
21 9 |       good as to treat me as an old acquaintance and go on?" ~"
22 10|        all very well for a rich old man like the duke, but it
23 10|        What duke?" ~"My jealous old duke." ~"He will know nothing." ~"
24 10|        still not half bad, poor old Duvernoy!" ~ ~
25 13|      duke." ~"Yes; but he is an old man, and I am sure that
26 13|      chanced by a miracle on an old man worth ten millions,
27 13|       She will never live to be old, and I should some day be
28 15|       the duke; but the duke is old, and old age neither protects
29 15|        but the duke is old, and old age neither protects nor
30 16|       needful on account of the old duke, Prudence was one of
31 17|       in believing me. The poor old man is always on the watch.
32 17|    forget the incident, but the old man, wounded in his dignity,
33 17| miserable in order to please an old man whose very sight makes
34 17|        very sight makes me feel old. Let him keep his money;
35 17|         advising her to see the old man again, though I was
36 18|       die if I went back to the old one. Tell me that you will
37 19|       my father's solicitor, an old friend of the family, handed
38 25|         me. Your father had the old theory that a courtesan
39 25|        and for the repose of my old age. What might have happened
40 25|         me; the respect of this old man, which I would gain;
41 25|       thought that one day this old man, who was now imploring
42 26|        offended him too deeply. Old men are not patient, no
43 26|       me. I do not know how the old man still keeps alive. He
44 26|         as if the sight of this old man, whom death has forgotten,
45 26|        Since she got so ill the old duke has not returned. He