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ESTATE OF THE NATION

veryone seems to want to go to The Newt, and I cannot figure out why. Very rarely in life are there multifaceted reasons why the monied and social set wants to converge on one place — usually there is a singular motivating factor. People are attracted to 5 Hertford Street for Robin Birley’s taste; they go to Davidoff of London for the Sahakians; they go to Bellamy’s for the fish fingers and smoked eel mousse; and they

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