Explore "The Parisians, Book IX" by Edward Bulwer-lytton on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
The next day Duplessis was surprised by a visit from M. Louvier -- that magnate of millionaires had never before set foot in the house of his younger and less famous rival.
The burly man entered the room with a face much flushed, and with more than his usual mixture of jovial brusquerie and opulent swagger.