“The young lady, however, is very intimate with some third-rate Italians, with whom she rackets about in a way that makes much talk.
The girl goes about alone with her foreigners. As to what happens farther, you must apply elsewhere for information. She has picked up half-a-dozen of the regular Roman fortune hunters, and she takes them about to people’s houses. When she comes to a party she brings with her a gentleman with a good deal of manner and a wonderful mustache.”
Henry James, “Daisy Miller”, 1878.
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