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"Tous les hommes sont menteurs, inconstants, faux, bavards, hypocrites, orgueilleux, ou laches, meprisables et sensuels: toutes les femmes sont perfides, artificieuses, vaniteuses, curieuses et depravees: . mais il y a au monde une chose sainte et sublime, c'est l'union de deux de ces etres si imparfaits et si affreux. " -- ALFRED DE MUSSET.
As the four-wheeler neared Lowndes Square the traffic became blocked, not by carriages, but by large numbers of people on foot. At last the cabman drew to the side, uncorked himself from the box, and came to the window.