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The provocation of Mrs. Fream's delicate voluptuousness went with Furze down the muddy lane. Its effect astonished him. It had folded itself in the sumptuous suggestiveness of that fur coat of hers. The barbarian, the man in a bear skin, that was Arnold Furze, the tall, Teuton or the Gaul lounging long-limbed in a decadent, southern town, and seeing some dusky and scented Voluptas with reddened lips and sleepy and insolent eyes carried by in a litter by four slaves.
This sleek, shingled, befurred city madam with her soft white face and casual eyes! This complete and pretty trifler! This delicate, scented thing all wrapped up in lace and silk!