Banker Peixotte with Miss Dervieu (The Deer Park, or The Origin of the Terrible Deficit)

"There was a man in Paris named Peixotte, a famous banker, who did not hate pretty women, but who only loved them in a certain way. La Dervieux was a girl of this world, pretty as love, very young and well known. In addition to her sugar daddy, she had, as was customary, two good friends, one a counselor in Parliament, the other a lawyer named La T..., a young man of twenty, very close to the Duke of Chartres, now Duke of Orleans, very handsome and resembling Louis XV, whom, it is said, it is possible to resemble from a distance.
Peixotte arrived one morning at Dervieux's house, where none of the three tenants were present. He offered a hundred louis if they would reveal all their charms; they accepted, undressed playfully, and the old satyr, after a few brief compliments on a throat and more secret charms worthy of altars, raved about an admirable curve of the back...