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he'd want it just he way it was.
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This I cannot figure.
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This doesn't mean it can't be figured.
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You could fill a big, fat book with what I
haven't been able to figure since I was 12.
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Maria, for instance, I could never
figure. But then, who could?
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There she was, the world's
number one symbol of desirability,
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on display all over the world's
number one showroom,
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with the world's number one
customers wanting to buy,
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and nobody wrapped her up
and took her home.
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Nobody.
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I'll swear that into my own grave.
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Nobody.
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And while I'm on the broad
subject of what I can't figure,
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I give you that phenomenon of this day
and age called "the international set".
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Once a year, on the French Riviera,
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one of the most beautiful
seashores on God's earth,
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the international set gathers, the way an
annual fungus gathers on a beautiful tree.
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It's quite a set.
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It's as if ordinary human beings,
living ordinary lives,
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had suddenly vanished from the earth,
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and the world was suddenly full
of butterflies shaped like people.
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They are all happy, all the time.
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Some of them are happy
because they are beautiful.
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And some of them have to be happy
because they are nothing but rich.
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Some of the international set
are happy because they are dogs.
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Don't laugh. There's
a beauty parlour in Cannes...
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just for dogs.
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But the happiest of
the international butterflies
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are those who live as if
they never left the cocoon.
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They form in little groups, usually
around some piece of ex-royalty.
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Bravano, of course, had the best
cocoon that money could buy.
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To begin with, he had as his guest, for the
entire season, the pretender to the throne.