...iant company my dear Becky is mov- ing. She became a constant guest at the French Embassy, where no party was considered to be complete without the pr... ... de- clared, according to the wont of their nation (for who ever yet met a Frenchman, come out of England, that has not left half a dozen families mis... ...ul, sumptuous, solemn, and in diamonds. They talked in English, not in bad French, as they do in the novels. They talked about each oth- ers’ houses, ... ...r conducts the slave- merchant into my lord’s presence; he brings a veiled female with him. He removes the veil. A thrill of applause bursts through t... ...e habit of play-act- ing and fancy dressing as highly unbecoming a British female, and after the charades were over, took his brother Rawdon severely ... ... his evening costume, which he had now worn two days, passed by the scared female who was scouring the steps and entered into his brother’s study. Lad... ...e of all ages and ranks, and consorted with generals, dog-fanciers, opera- dancers, bruisers, and every kind of person, in a word, was resting himself... ...g for toffy, and used to be birched at Eton. So they went on talking about dancers, fights, drinking, demireps, until Macmurdo came down and joined th...

...end of November or the beginning of December 1664 when two men, said to be Frenchmen, died of the plague in Long Acre, or rather at the upper end of ... ...d six. of the spotted-fever. It was, however, upon inquiry found that this Frenchman who died in Bearbinder Lane was one who, having lived in Long Acr... ...week the city continued free, there having never any died, except that one Frenchman whom I mentioned before, within the whole ninety-seven parishes. ... ... and suppressed; and the jack-puddings, merry- andrews, puppet-shows, rope-dancers, and such-like doings, which had bewitched the poor common people, ... ... in the late plague in this city , anno 1636, gives her advice only to the female sex. T o be spoken with,’ &c. ‘ An experienced physician, who has lo...

...e, and how he subsequently became a self-ap- pointed follower of the young female artist. In the first place, however, we must devote a page or two to... ...ange entanglement which followed), they soon heard a responsive call, in a female voice. “It was the signorina!” cried Donatello joyfully. “Yes; it wa... ...inen-draper’s shop; a pipe and cigar shop; a lottery office; a station for French soldiers, with a sentinel pacing in front; and a fruit-stand, at whi... ...ican girl was an example of the freedom of life which it is possible for a female artist to enjoy at Rome. She dwelt in her tower, as free to descend ... ...wthorne which anon, as his active motion heated him, he flung aside. Three French soldiers capered freely into the throng, in wide scarlet trousers, t... ...e flautist out of breath, so it chanced that the music had ceased, and the dancers come abruptly to a pause. All that motley throng of rioters was dis... ...able an affair as it can well be. In this pleasant spot, the red-trousered French soldiers are always to be seen; bearded and grizzled veterans, perha...

...ddressing her with the single word which consti- tuted the strength of his French vocabulary, and holding up one finger in a manner which appeared to ... ...n English. “Combien?” “Monsieur wishes to buy it?” asked the young lady in French. “Very pretty, splendide. Combien?” repeated the Ameri- can. “It ple... ... fixed him with her conscious, perceptive eye and asked him if he spoke no French. Then, “Donnez!” she said briefly, and took the open guide-book. 7 ... ...epraved, my contemporar- ies!” He said wonderfully pretty things about his female friends, and, numerous and various as they had been, de- clared that... ...ther portiere and asked Newman who had been entertaining him. “The British female!” said Newman. “An old lady in a black dress and a cap, who curtsies... ...represented a fete champetre—a lady with a guitar, singing, and a group of dancers round a garlanded Hermes. “We go out so little, murmured the marqui... ... American la- dies, about his impressions of France and his opinion of its female inhabitants. All this was a brilliant monologue on the part of the d...

...e, and how he subsequently became a self-ap- pointed follower of the young female artist. In the first place, however, we must devote a page or two to... ...ange entanglement which followed), they soon heard a responsive call, in a female voice. “It was the signorina!” cried Donatello joyfully. “Yes; it wa... ...inen-draper’s shop; a pipe and cigar shop; a lottery office; a station for French soldiers, with a sentinel pacing in front; and a fruit-stand, at whi... ...ican girl was an example of the freedom of life which it is possible for a female artist to enjoy at Rome. She dwelt in her tower, as free to descend ... ...wthorne which anon, as his active motion heated him, he flung aside. Three French soldiers capered freely into the throng, in wide scarlet trousers, t... ...e flautist out of breath, so it chanced that the music had ceased, and the dancers come abruptly to a pause. All that motley throng of rioters was dis... ...able an affair as it can well be. In this pleasant spot, the red-trousered French soldiers are always to be seen; bearded and grizzled veterans, perha...

...................................................................... 24 OUR FRENCH WATERING PLACE......................................................... ............................................. ............. 202 A MONUMENT OF FRENCH FOLLY.................................................................. ... day break; for, in the midst of their own distress, the sufferings of the females on board affected them with the most poignant anguish; and every se... ...universal shriek, which long vibrated in their ears, in which the voice of female distress was lamentably distinguished, announced the dreadful catast... ...kling, heaving, swelling up with life and beauty, this bright morning. OUR FRENCH WATERING PLACE HAVING EARNED, BY MANY YEARS of fidelity, the rig... ...hat between the T orrid Zone and the North Pole there are to be found male dancers with such astonishingly loose legs, fur nished with so many joints... ... It was an obstruction of a soft nature. On looking in, I found it to be a female. The female in question stood in the corner behind the door, consumi... ...l mob, we diverge to the kindred topics of cracksmen, fences, public house dancers, area sneaks, designing young people who go out ‘gonophing,’ and ot...

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...istinctly perceptible. Lady Patterne sent a little Hebe down, skirting the dancers, for an accurate re- port of it; and even the inappreciative lips o... ... cousin Willoughby. Be it said that the hour was four in the morning, when dancers must laugh at somebody, if only to refresh their feet, and the wit ... ...elicate flowers, the ladies of the Court of China, on rice-paper. A little French dressing would make her at home on the sward by the fountain among t... ...ngels of Luini. Lady Culmer had seen crayon sketches of demoiselles of the French aristocracy resembling her. Some one mentioned an antique statue of ... ...king with her, in drooping to her, the whole man was made conscious of the female image of him- self by her exquisite unlikeness. She completed him, a... ...feminine in reflective bashfulness, agreed with his highest definitions of female character. “Let me conduct you to the garden, my love,” he said. She... ...are in very good condition.” “I am glad. Do you know, I love those ancient French cha- teaux and farms in one, where salon windows look on poul- try-y... ...He left her, con- vinced that he must do and say more to reach down to her female intelligence. She saw young Crossjay, springing with pots of jam in ...