Happily, though, I
am not a respectable woman, and I can tell you I am tired of living
more closely shut up than the wife of a Turk, with your face for sole
amusement."
"You live shut up, you?"
"Certainly!" continued Juliette, with increased bitterness. "Come, have
you ever brought one of your friends here? No, you hide me. When
have you offered me your arm for a walk? Never, your dignity would be
sullied, if you were seen in my company. I have a carriage. Have you
entered it half a dozen times? Perhaps; but then you let down the
blinds! I go out alone. I walk about alone!"
"Always the same refrain," interrupted Noel, anger getting the better of
him, "always these uncalled for complaints. As though you had still to
learn the reason why this state of things exists."
"I know well enough," pursued the young woman, "that you are ashamed of
me. Yet I know many bigger swells then you, who do not mind being seen
with their mistresses. My lord trembles for his fine name of Gerdy that
I might sully, while the sons of the most noble families are not afraid
of showing themselves in public places in the company of the stupidest
of kept women.
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