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The story flashed like lightning from one end of London to the other.
Leona Lalage had been an important personage. Her face was familiar to the society paper window; no report of a great function was complete without a description of her dress. She was a constant source of 'copy' to the paragraphists; her dinners and her parties were things to imitate and envy. And now the crash had come.