A Parisian Romance — page 78: what you’re looking at

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A PARISIAN ROMANCE. 69: CHAPTER V. SKELETONS. From the night of her ball young Madame de Targy was a pronounced success. Her toilets, her beauty, her voice were the theme of every tongue, and Marcelle’s cup of joy was brimming over. She reveled in luxury and all the power that money and position give; not that she was frivolous or heartless, far from it; she loved her husband with her whole heart, and his will was her law; she loved him, and she was grateful to him for all the beauty and sunshine he had poured into her life. Perhaps she was a little intoxicated by all the adulation she received, but she had a stanch. friend and wise adviser.in Madame Chevrial, to guide her steps amid the shoals and pitfalls that lie beneath the brilliant, fascinating exterior of Parisian society. | Armande Chevrial was a woman of far more than ordinary strength of character. Her marriage had been one purely of convenience, arranged by her relatives and in which she had been but little con- sulted. Ina worldly point of view, it was certainly a great match for a penniless girl, and as is too often the case in such circumstances, uncle and ¥ Comicbookssco i