Quotation from: The Arrow of Gold

Written by: Joseph Conrad

The other tried to appear at ease. Tongues were wagging about it
in Paris. There was a sort of international financier, a fellow
with an Italian name, a shady personality, who had been looking for
her all over Europe and talked in clubs--astonishing how such
fellows get into the best clubs--oh! Azzolati was his name. But
perhaps what a fellow like that said did not matter. The funniest
thing was that there was no man of any position in the world who
had disappeared at the same time. A friend in Paris wrote to him
that a certain well-known journalist had rushed South to
investigate the mystery but had returned no wiser than he went.