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Excerpt from The Penitent
By force of contrast with the ugly present, and its atmosphere of compulsion and of toil, he recalled the night before. He had spent it with one of Petersburg's loveliest women. What fun the smuggling him in had been! He chuckled now at thought of it. How well he had acted his part, too, that of messenger from the fashionable modiste, Marcelle, bringing home late a gown! At the recollection he looked down upon his slim, elegant figure with approval. Then the luxurious, satin-hung, violet-perfumed room, with its profusion of ?owers, and its seductive inmate, swung be fore the eyes of his brain and shut out the ugly present.
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