What I most enjoy is spotting the various kinds of pimps hanging around the tables; some are husbands living off the charms of their wives: they hang about, well dressed, smoking and playing cards, and the landlord or the girls refer to them as the cuckolds' table.
 Umberto Eco, The Prague Cemetery (2010). copy citation

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Author Umberto Eco
Source The Prague Cemetery
Topic charm husband
Date 2010
Language English
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Note Translated by Richard Dixon
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