A PHASE OF FAST LIFE.
A leading fashionable Viscount has bid his native land good night. He had the most splendid turn-out in Paris, and which turned the heads of many ladies. He lodged in a splen-didly-furnished palace, and lived by ■pawning the artistic, articles of light furniture, replacing them by ‘dummies,’ ■ and paying nobody The bubble burst, and the first thing the police did was to seize the wardrobes and jewellerv of Lis several mistresses, and wliicli form a large pile that one may go to view, as the spectacle costs nothing. Some I letters wore discovered from a wealthy and respectable lady who loved the swindler, and advanced him money-, I but at whom ho laughed. She was ashed if she was now convinced, and 1 she replied—“ Vis, more than ever to ■love and many him.”
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Dunstan Times, Issue 775, 23 February 1877, Page 4
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