The winters are to fashionable women what a campaign once was to the soldiers of the Empire.


La Fausse Maîtresse (1842), translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley, ch. II.

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The winters are to fashionable women what a campaign once was to the soldiers of the Empire.

The winters are to fashionable women what a campaign once was to the soldiers of the Empire.

The winters are to fashionable women what a campaign once was to the soldiers of the Empire.

The winters are to fashionable women what a campaign once was to the soldiers of the Empire.