Crossword-Solution: POUFF 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 13

News has just come that Ti Marie died last night at the lazaretto of the Fort: she was attacked by what they call the _lavérette-pouff_,--a form of the disease which strangles its victim within a few hours.

Clarissa remembered the room very well--it was Lady Laura's own especial sanctum, the last and smallest of four drawing-rooms--a nest lined with crimson silk, and crowded with everything foolish in the way of ebony and ormolu, Venetian glass and Sèvres china, and with nothing sensible in it except three or four delicious easy-chairs of the _pouff_ species, immortalised by Sardou.

Alas for that age of pouff which he satirised with such a caustic pen! To what dismal end has it come! End of powder and petroleum, and instead of beauty, burning! The lonely wanderer, so sorely oppressed with cares and perplexities, looked wistfully up at those familiar windows.

Pouff!" The French privateer sailed out to meet the foe, and soon her white canvas had disappeared from view around a jutting headland.

And so, with a gurgle of laughter, she pointed to each one in turn,—and they stepped forward and spoke; first the women, “Anna Stezzel,” a bow and a flash of teeth, “Regina Spatz,” a bow and a gracious smile, and then the men, “Salo Impf,” “Valdemar Varvascho,” “Simon Zalouhou,” “Max Wachevsky,” “Willy Pouff,” fired in bass, baritone and tenor and accompanied by a kiss upon the little outstretched hand.