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Lois and George walked cautiously across the dusty, dulled parquets into the vast drawing-room. George doffed his hat. "I'd better draw the blinds up," he suggested. "No, no!" she sharply commanded. "I can see quite well. I don't want any more light." There was the piano upon which Laurencine had played! The embrasure of the window!
But it was your own wish, my dear, that has kept us in the country, this winter." The last six months had, indeed, passed very differently to the young people. Jane had been dancing away her evenings on the parquets of Paris; and dividing her mornings between walks to the Tuileries, drives to the Bois de Boulogne, and visits to the shops.
When the richer portion of its inhabitants have left the hot and sultry town, or, in mid-winter, are immersed in the more exclusive pleasures of fashionable life, even then the theatres are thronged; and in September and October you shall find all parts of the country represented in their boxes and parquets, proving that this is not an exclusively metropolitan taste, that it is shared by the whole nation, that in this also New York is truly representative.
He stopped, he looked back; the whole thing made a vista, which he found high melancholy and sweet full, once more, of dim historic shades, of the faint faraway cannon-roar of the great Empire. It was doubtless half the projection of his mind, but his mind was a thing that, among old waxed parquets, pale shades of pink and green, pseudo-classic candelabra, he had always needfully to reckon with.
If you could have seen it! Evidently the all-powerful flag had not protected this, for it was without doors, windows, and parquets. The only thing in it was a dear little calf munching his last meal before being killed. To make it look more like a slaughter-house, there were haunches of beef hanging on the Louis XV. appliques, which had been left on the walls to serve as nails.
A small pastel at the Luxembourg Gallery proves her convincing qualities as a colourist. Gustave Caillebotte was a friend of the Impressionists from the very first hour. He was rich, fond of art, and himself a painter of great merit who modestly kept hidden behind his comrades. His picture Les raboteurs de parquets made him formerly the butt of derision.
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