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Chapter 32. At the court of the Toularies, said Mr. Siller-Tin Jackson, with his reminiscent

smile, such things were pretty openly tolerated. The scene was the Vanderliden's black walnut

dining room in Madison Avenue, and the time the evening after Newland archers visit

to the Museum of Art. Mr. and Mrs. Vanderliden had come to town for a few days from Skidercliffe,

whether they had precipitantly fled at the announcement of Beaufort's failure. It had been

represented to them that the disarray into which society had been thrown by this deplorable

affair made their presence in town more necessary than ever. It was one of the occasions when,

as Mrs. Archer put it, they owed it to society to show themselves at the opera, and even

to open their own doors. It will never do, my dear Louisa, to let people like Mrs. Lemuel

Struthers think they can step into Regina's shoes. It is just at such times that new people

push in and get a footing. It was owing to the epidemic of chickenpox in New York, the

winter Mrs. Struthers first appeared that the married men slipped away to her house while

their wives were in the nursery. You and dear Henry, Louisa, must stand in the breach as

you always have. Mr. and Mrs. Vanderliden could not remain deaf to such a call, and reluctantly,

but heroically, they had come to town, unwuffled the house, and sent out invitations for two

dinners and an evening reception. On this particular evening, they had invited

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