Europa

Julian Bern had seen a beautiful Baroness stripped naked and whipped brutally at the command on an exiled Russian Prince; he had drunk with international conspirators and lechers in gilded Italian villas; he had known the arms of perfumed women whose titled husbands toyed with the fate of nations or revelled in the pleasures of strange amours... But adventure after amorous adventure in the maddening glitter of the highest Continental society had left him bitterly disillusioned.