Cora soon realized that men often left money behind when they courted a woman, as a sort of calling card; and that if they forgot, a polite reminder was all that was needed to have them prove the honor of their intentions.
Cora had finally come to see that not all gentlemen's intentions were honorable, and had had several close calls in London, though thank goodness no serious harm had ever come to her.
Cora's final party was indeed the funeral of the century for Paris, and Cora must have been smiling down from heaven to see this amazing tribute - for surely that is where she is. CoraPearl was a woman who knew from the beginning that she had a gift to share with a needy world.
Duplessis was slim and adolescent, Pearl was unfemininely athletic and La Païva was not even pretty: she had a big nose, a grim little mouth and a frumpy hairdo.
Pearl, who possessed a sort of sardonic humour, once had herself served up on a silver platter, naked apart from some parsley.
La Païva married a Count, Sabatier enjoyed a modestly prosperous old age and died of flu at 68 and, though a number of moralists alleged that Pearl died in abject poverty, in fact she succumbed to cancer at 51 in a perfectly comfortable three-bedroom flat.
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