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Hearken this, ye dainty perruquiers, "who look so brisk, and smell so sweet," and have such an exquisite knack of chirruping, and lisping, and sliding over the smooth edge of the under lip, and, sometimes, agreeably too, "an infinite deal of nothing," ye who clip and anoint the hair of Old England's curled darlings! Eight chins a penny; and three months' credit!
I then remained quiet as before, not only to avoid suspicion, but to ingratiate myself with the superior, by my supposed reformation. After a few days, I sallied forth, and leaving a note for one of the most skilful perruquiers of Seville, desired him to call at my lodgings, at an hour indicated.
Perhaps, the fervid state of his brain, like a hidden volcano, burnt up the herbage above perhaps, his hair was falling off from the friction of his laurels perhaps growing prematurely grey from the workings of his spirit; but without venturing upon any more conjectures, we may safely come to the conclusion, that the hair that God gave him did not please him so well as that which he bought of the perruquiers.
It was his landlord who had stuck up that notice of a sale by auction. Tailors and shoemakers, perruquiers and perfumers were bewailing his flight. So much for the sordid side of things. But what of those numerous affairs of the heart those entanglements which had made his life one long intrigue? Lady Sarah sat simpering and nodding as Masaroon whispered close in her ear. Barbara?
I then remained quiet as before, not only to avoid suspicion, but to ingratiate myself with the superior by my supposed reformation. After a few days I sallied forth, and leaving a note for one of the most skilful perruquiers of Seville, desired him to call at my lodgings at an hour indicated.
It was by these a journey in themselves that Kirstie sometimes made exit and entrance when she had business at the shops, and she has counted up to me a list, which seemed without end, of the offices, workshops, and tenements she passed on her way, beginning with a wine store in the basement, mounting to perruquiers' and law-stationers' shops, and so up past bookbinders', felt-maker's, painters', die-sinkers', milliners' workrooms, to landings on which, as the roof was neared, the tenants herded closer and yet closer in meaner and yet meaner poverty.
Even the Quixotism of some of their attempts at colonisation cannot fail to interest us, as at Gallipolis on the Ohio, a colony composed of expatriated people of the French court; perruquiers, coachbuilders, tailors, modistes, and the like.
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