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Madame Naraschine,

the wife of young Dumas, who has been alternately dubbed Countess and Princess, does not sport a title at all, but she is universally admitted to be one of the most thoroughly grandes dames in all Europe, and she is connected by her first husband with the Emperor of Russia. Her manners, her wit, her learning, her high social position, and her auburn hair, of that precise shade which dyers most try to imitate, are the theme of ecstatic articles in the Jockey Club journals. Her sister in-law, of Swedish origin, a nun of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, is one of the most fashionable holy women in the noble Faubourg of St. Germane.

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