d'Ambre

The walls were bare save for a poster, incongruous in this context, of John Singer Sargent's mysterious Fum-e d'Ambre Gris, a painting of a woman in flowing white robes, in a vaguely Middle Eastern milieu, whose face was made somehow incandescent by shadows partially obscuring it.

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His _Fumée d'Ambre Gris_ represents a woman of Tangiers engaged in perfuming her clothing with the fumes from a lamp in which ambergris is burning.

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Madame d'Ambre murmured something, and Mary smiled a more than ordinarily friendly smile; for she knew that this was the distant cousin of whom she had heard from Peter, the "Jim" who, in Molly Maxwell's eyes, was an heroic figure.

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"But I" -- she hesitated, and glanced appealingly at Madame d'Ambre -- "I think it's rather late, and I shall have to go home."

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Madame d'Ambre reproached the four, her white-rose cheeks flushing with annoyance.

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As Madame d'Ambre drew her friend aside for a murmur of advice, the two men looked at each other, Carleton puzzled, Hannaford with raised eyebrows.

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Madame d'Ambre, aided by her croupier-neighbour, obeyed.

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Without protest, Madame d'Ambre selected from the piles of gold and notes now ranged in front of Mary the stakes indicated, and, with a hand not quite steady, placed those within her reach.

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Almost savagely, Vanno grasped the back of the chair and flung himself into it, though Madeleine d'Ambre had been on the point of sitting down.

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"Shall I put something for you on twenty-four?" hastily asked Madame d'Ambre.

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