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Follow my example, friends; I am going where a man steers his destiny as he pleases. These great resolutions were formed in the little room in the lodging-house in the Rue Corneille, in spite of our haunting the Bal Musard, flirting with girls of the town, and leading a careless and apparently reckless life. Our plans and arguments long floated in the air.
It belongs to the owner of one of the ships, and has been here en panne waiting till he can have it repaired." We went one evening to the Casino to see a "bal des matelottes." It was a curious sight a band playing on a raised stand a broad space cleared all round it and lots of people dancing. The great feature, of course, was the matelottes.
Georges, youthful and elegant, sitting beside Sidonie, seemed her natural companion, while Risler Allle, always so placid and self-effacing, seemed in his proper place beside Claire Fromont, who in her dark clothes suggested the respectable woman incog. at the Bal de l'Opera. Upon leaving the theatre each of the partners offered his arm to his neighbor.
Barrie and I went out together, I longing for a few words in the corridor, or at least a friendly pressure of the hand. But I saw that she was in no condition to be spoken to. The reaction was coming on, and I let her go at once. She almost ran down the passage to a room not far away, and slammed the door. Neither Mrs. Bal nor Barrie appeared again that evening.
The great bal blanc is always one of the most important events of the Nice season, and everyone of note wintering on the Riviera was there, yet all carefully masked, both men and women. "I wonder what prevented Hugh from coming with us, mother?" the girl remarked as she sat with Lady Ranscomb watching the merriment and the throwing of serpentines and confetti. "I don't know.
Of our pleasures on a Sunday afternoon the world has heard. We devote that to our families, if we have any; Monday, too often, to our friends. There are on Sundays our feats of gymnastics at open-air balls beyond the barriers, and our dancing saloons in the city; such as the Prado, the Bal Montesquieu, and the Dogs’ Ball.
Perhaps he Somerled would have room in his box for those nice American boys, of whom Barrie seemed so fond? Aline was eagerly waiting for me to come back and congratulate her upon her great success. She wanted to tell me everything; but her desire to talk was nothing compared with my yearning to hear. "It's all right," she began. "I've made a bargain with Mrs. Bal.
There are, for example, at least twenty vowel sounds in the English language, not to speak of certain digraphs; that is to say, each of the important vowels has from two to six sounds. Each of these vowel sounds may enter into combination with the b sound alone to form three syllables; as ba, ab, bal, be, eb, bel, etc. Thus there are at least sixty b-sound syllables.
Nay, if Miss Bal but again we cannot proceed for the want of an interpreter if Miss B., we say, will only accept a position at Cleary's Waxworks and give readings from her poetry, or exhibit herself in the act of pronouncing her own name, she will be a greater draw in this city than Punch and Judy, or even the latest American advertising evangelist, who preaches standing on his head."
There never were two men more different than he and I are; and I suppose that's why we get on so well together. When we were in Paris he was always up to his eyes in serious work lectures, public libraries, workmen's syndicates, Mary Anne, the International heaven knows what, making himself master of the political situation in France; while I was rigolant and chaloupant at the Bal Bullier.
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