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Silas Q. Scuddamore presented himself in unimpeachable attire at the door of the Bullier Ball Rooms, and paid his entry money with a sense of reckless devilry that was not without its charm. It was Carnival time, and the Ball was very full and noisy.
He had talked to her about Cronshaw, she would see him; and there was Lawson, he had gone to Paris for a couple of months; and they would go to the Bal Bullier; there were excursions; they would make trips to Versailles, Chartres, Fontainebleau. "It'll cost a lot of money," she said. "Oh, damn the expense. Think how I've been looking forward to it. Don't you know what it means to me?
On the pine table stood a candle, and its dim light revealed "the boys" sitting here and there on bunks, candle-boxes, powder-kegs, etc. They said: "Sh ! Don't speak he's going to commence." I found a seat at once, and Blaine said: 'I don't reckon them times will ever come again. There never was a more bullier old ram than what he was.
She was an islander, but she had seen the Midnight Follies and the Bal Bullier, the carnival in Nice, and once, New Year's Eve in San Francisco. An Italian and a Scandinavian prince had wooed her. I spoke of Loti again, and of other writers' comments upon the attitude of women in Tahiti toward man. The princess sat up and adjusted her hei of ferns.
I don't know; there may be bullier circuses than what that one was, but I never struck them yet. Anyways, it was plenty good enough for ME; and wherever I run across it, it can have all of MY custom every time. Well, that night we had OUR show; but there warn't only about twelve people there just enough to pay expenses.
Ah, yes, it was funny too that he the Lascar hound the d d nigger should get what bigger and bullier men than he had died for! The mate's blood was on those boxes, if the salt water had not washed it out. It was a hell of a fight when they dragged the captain Oh, what was that? Was it the splash of a rat in the bilge, or what? A superstitious terror had begun to seize him at the thought of blood.
On the pine table stood a candle, and its dim light revealed "the boys" sitting here and there on bunks, candle-boxes, powder-kegs, etc. They said: "Sh ! Don't speak he's going to commence." I found a seat at once, and Blaine said: 'I don't reckon them times will ever come again. There never was a more bullier old ram than what he was.
To-morrow, if you go before six to the hotel where the Prince lodges, your baggage will be passed over as a part of his, and you yourself will make the journey as a member of his suite." "It seems to me, as you speak, that I have already seen both the Prince and Colonel Geraldine; I even overheard some of their conversation the other evening at the Bullier Ball."
He knows better now: he is enjoying himself in Paris under the pretence of studying law and modern languages dancing at the jardin Bullier, and going on no end, I daresay. I know what Paris is. 'How can you? exclaimed Bessie; 'you were never there! 'I was never in the moon, but I'm pretty well acquainted with the geography of that planet.
A voice began to chant: Je n'sais comment faire, Comment concillier Ma maitresse et mon pere, Le Code et Bullier. "Drop it! Oh, drop it!" growled Rhodes, and sent a handful of billiard chalk at the singer. Mr Clifford returned a volley of the Cafe spoons, and continued: Mais c'que je trouve de plus bete, C'est qu' i' faut financer Avec ma belle galette, J'aimerai mieux m'amuser.
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