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Perhaps the business is to lend cash; and I've no great stomach for that. But it will be an honour, to be sure. Landlady's Parlour. LANDLADY MR. FINSBURY, a man-milliner, with bandboxes a fancy cap, or helmet, with feathers, in the Landlady's hand a satin bag, covered with gold netting, in the man-milliner's hand a mantle hanging over his arm.
She isn't a right down swell to-day, but I have ordered six dresses for her from Van Klopen; such swell gets up! You know Van Klopen, don't you, the best man-milliner in Paris. Such taste! such ideas! you never saw the like." Rose had by this time reached her drawing-room. "Andre," said she, impatiently, "are you never coming up?"
She had sent to Constantinople patterns from which she had them made there, as pleasing to the eye as they were costly and precious. Every week M. Lenormant, the first man-milliner in Paris, came to Navarra, the country residence of the empress, and brought his most beautiful shawls for her selection.
If you go to this woman's place, for instance" and he glanced at the note Alwyn had thrown on the table, "you will share the honors of the evening with the famous man-milliner of Bond Street, an 'artist' in gowns, the female upholsterer and house decorator, likewise an 'artist, the ladies who 'compose' sonnets in Regent Street, also 'artists, and chiefest among the motley crowd, perhaps, the so-called new 'Apostle' of aestheticism, a ponderous gentleman who says nothing and does nothing, and who, by reason of his stupendous inertia and taciturnity, is considered the greatest 'gun' of all! ... it's no use YOUR going among such people, in fact, no one who has any reverence left in him for the TRUTH of Art CAN mix with those whose profession of it is a mere trade and hypocritical sham.
He there conducted himself so much to the satisfaction of Bonaparte, that, on the rupture with your country, he was made commander of the camp near Montreuil; and last year his wife was received as a Maid of Honour to the Empress of the French. This Maid of Honour is the daughter of a washer-woman, and was kept by a man-milliner at Strasburg, at the time that she eloped with Ney.
Lee not long afterwards spoke to Ratcliffe of her regret at Gore's disappointment and hinted at his disgust. Ratcliffe replied that he had done what he could for Gore, and had introduced him to the President, who, after seeing him, had sworn his usual granitic oath that he would sooner send his nigger farm-hand Jake to Spain than that man-milliner.
Meanwhile, the man-milliner continued to urge his claims but the baron, instead of replying, only whistled; and wounded by this breach of good manners, Van Klopen at last exclaimed: "I have had dealings with all the distinguished men in Europe, and never before did one of them refuse to pay me for his wife's toilettes." "Very well I don't pay for them there's the difference.
'I can fancy a man fond of his art who painted like Reynolds, Hoppner would say; 'but how a man can be fond of art who paints like that fellow Northcote, Heaven only knows! There was no love lost between them. 'As to that poor man-milliner of a painter Hoppner, said Northcote, 'I hate him, sir, I ha-a-ate him!
As soon as they were once more alone, Mascarin examined the letters. "Ah," cried he, "one from Van Klopen, and the other from the Hotel de Mussidan. Let us first see what our friend the man-milliner has to say. "You may be at ease. Our mutual friend Verminet has executed your orders most adroitly.
"Wouldn't that start a man-milliner to raising alfalfa?" demanded Mudge upon such occasions. "Where the clouds never lower and the sun shines always. Where the perfumed zephyrs fan the cheeks of men and brothers. The Perfect Climate found at last! Crowheart the Gem of the Rockies! within easy reach.
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