The Works of George W. M. Reynolds — page 189: what you’re looking at

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172 THE COURT OF LONDON if she were not even acquainted with her husband’s “‘ naughty doings’ at all, was quite consistent with the aristocratic and fashionable idea in such matters. But there was not a titled demirep nor a patrician courtesan who did not affect to speak with the most contemptuous pity of the disgraced and lost Countess of Curzon, so that while Horace the seducer was everywhere caressed and flattered, Editha the seduced was everywhere spoken of with an ironical commiseration. “ Poor creature! ”’ said the demireps and scandal-mongers, ‘she is done fornow. But itis just what was to be expected, considering the family she belongs to.” GOmiicdoo ‘Ss (E(0)