“Young girls passed me with romance still in their eyes, and others, a little older, with the romance dead.”

— John Buchan , book A Lodge in the Wilderness

The scene is a society ball in London.
Source: A Lodge in the Wilderness (1906), Ch. V, p. 145.

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British politician 1875–1940

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