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age of forty or so we find her reduced to giving dancing lessons at a not quite first-rate school in Paris.

Her glamorous lovers were now replaced by an elderly but still vigorous Englishm[a]n who sought abroad a refuge from taxes and a convenient place to conduct his not quite legal transactions in the traffic of wines. He was what used to be termed a charmeur. His name, no doubt assumed, was Hubert H. Hubert.

Flora, a lovely child, as she said

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在四十歲左右時，我們發現她已淪落到去巴黎一所算不上一流的學校教授舞蹈課程。

一位上了年紀、精力卻還算旺盛的英國男人則取代了她以前那些風流倜儻的情人們。此人旅居巴黎是為了尋求一個既有利于避稅，又便于從事一些不那么合法的紅酒交易的處所。他就是過去人們口中的一個有誘惑力的人。毋庸置疑，他的姓名叫休伯特·赫·休伯特。

弗洛拉是個可愛的孩子，每次談及