They both styled themselves "Madame," but only the younger of the old ladies had been married. Madame Vali re was still a demoiselle, but as she drew towards sixty it had seemed more convenable to possess a mature label. Certainly Madame D pine had no visible matrimonial advantages over her fellow-lodger at the H tel des Tourterelles, though in the symmetrical cemetery of Montparnasse (Section 22) wreaths of glass beads testified to a copious domesticity...
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