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  • Maufrigneuse, who, it was said, had “thrown him over,” one of the phrases by which women avenge themselves on happiness they envy.

    Scenes from a Courtesan's Life 2007

  • Maufrigneuse, was the oracle of this circle, to which Madame de

    Scenes from a Courtesan's Life 2007

  • Duchesse de Langeais, or de Maufrigneuse, or of a Lady Dudley does not bestow immense pleasure?

    The Commission in Lunacy 2007

  • Maufrigneuse was the only person in the secret of the vehement and absorbing passion, of which the joys, from the girlish suspicion of first love to the preposterous follies of fulfilment, had made

    Scenes from a Courtesan's Life 2007

  • Maufrigneuse, of the Comtesse de Serizy, and loved by Clotilde de

    Scenes from a Courtesan's Life 2007

  • In like manner Modeste had the instinct to appropriate the distinctive qualities of Madame de Maufrigneuse and

    Modeste Mignon 2007

  • Maufrigneuse, and I shall be presented to the society I am so eager to know.

    Letters of Two Brides 2007

  • As for society, I run less risk in meeting my lover thus than when I smile to him in the drawing-rooms of Mme. de Maufrigneuse and the old Marquise de Beauseant, where spies now surround us on every side; and Heaven only knows how people stare at the girl, suspected of a weakness for a grotesque, like Macumer.

    Letters of Two Brides 2007

  • My father meantime was talking to Mme. de Maufrigneuse.

    Letters of Two Brides 2007

  • Maufrigneuse, this saintly lady went to find Monsieur de Grandlieu, and brought him back at once.

    Scenes from a Courtesan's Life 2007

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