Meaning of Mrs. Leo Hunter | Babel Free

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A woman who seeks to cultivate the company of famous and interesting people.

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“The third danger is, that she accepts, in lieu of the best acquaintances, second and third rate people, the hangers-on upon society, people who have⟳ not the best or freshest reputation—the Mrs. Leo Hunters, the Misses Bore and the Messrs. Fraudulent, who are a large family.”

“In the salon of a Lafitte or a Mrs. Leo Hunter there may be mixtures of the sort⟳ — not in that society, either of London or Paris, which there is any pretence for comparing to the upper circles of Vienna.”

“I will not say⟳ a word against a Mrs. Leo Hunter who lived in H Street, and who every Sunday evening filled her drawing-rooms with every notable person she could lay⟳ her hands on. Her house was on these occasions a museum of notorieties. Distinction of any sort⟳ was an introduction to her hospitalities.”

“She was a Mrs. Leo Hunter, model⟳ 1939. But she hunted lions as if they were rats: as if they were some noxious pest that her malign fate had decreed she should tirelessly pursue⟳, but every millimeter of whose guts she hated.”

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