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  6. With a brief “Farewell” Robert hurried from the party, rushing to the jewelry shop to buy his mistress a $50,000 diamond necklace as a gift.
  7. The most successful hookers are those who, while pocketing a $50,000 ‘gift’, can persuade their victim he’s screwed her for free – for love!
  8. I did not like to tell Robert that the love of his life, Rachel, for whom he was sacrificing everything is also Jewish and also an ex-hooker
  9. Robert left the party to avoid being introduced to Mme Swann. “She’s an ex-hooker” he said “and she’s married to a Jew.”
  10. It’s always gratifying to learn that one’s name is being mentioned at smart Parisian dinner tables. However, I’m not sure about “hysterical”
  11. “Don’t trust M. de Norpois” Mme Swann confided. “He mentioned you last night at dinner. He said you are a ‘hysterical little flatterer’.”
  12. Recognizing me as somebody in the room that she knew (from my friendship with Gilberte) Mme Swann cornered me for a “gossip about old times”
  13. When assured that Mme Swann is “quite nice”. The Duchess replied “I am sure she is, but I feel no need to reassure myself of it in person.”
  14. The hostess warned the Duchess that, because of her public anti-Dreyfus activity, Mme Swann had been invited to the party, & they might meet
  15. When Legrandin kissed his hostess, Norpois smiled with a slight quiver of the eyelid as tho’ to say such concupiscence were entirely natural
  16. Being anti-Semitic has become the latest mark of respectability, sufficient to overcome the disgrace of being an ex-hooker, or a foreigner.
  17. “The German Prime Minister’s a very decent chap” someone said “Very unusual quality in a foreigner; besides he’s anti-Semitism personified!”
  18. While I was being introduced to the Duchesse de Guermantes and her cousin, Robert’s saintly mother, the gay repartee of the party continued.
  19. Robert’s mother considered Rachel an impossible choice as a wife, not because she was ugly or reputed to be a whore but because she was poor
  20. Robert’s mother was described as a selfless Christian and she was selflessly determined to find an immensely wealthy wife for her only son