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There is constant going and coming through those superb white and gold salons, a slamming of doors, an unbroken current of insolent extortion of the most hackneyed type, attracted from the four corners of Paris and the suburbs by that enormous fortune and that incredible gullibility. For these small sums, this incessant doling out of cash, he did not have recourse to the checkbook.
Affairs in France had taken too serious an aspect to be ignored, and the theories of the philosophers were among the staple topics of conversation; indeed, it was the great vogue of the philosophers that gave many of the most noted social centers their prestige and their fame. It is not the salons of the high nobility that suggest themselves as the typical ones of this age.
I have two Rembrandts in my own apartment beyond which it may interest you to see, and a few other relics of the past." He was perfectly matter of fact, his manner had not a shade of gallantry in it, and Tamara accepted this new situation and followed him without a backward thought. They seemed to go through several sheet-shrouded salons and came out into a thoroughly comfortable room.
At twelve he entered the University of Cambridge; at fifteen he quitted it, already disgusted with its pedantries and sophistries; at sixteen he rebelled against the authority of Aristotle, and took up his residence at Gray's Inn; the same year, 1576, he was sent to Paris in the suite of Sir Amias Paulet, ambassador to the court of France, and delighted the salons of the capital by his wit and profound inquiries; at nineteen he returned to England, having won golden opinions from the doctors of the French Sanhedrim, who saw in him a second Daniel; and in 1582 he was admitted as a barrister of Gray's Inn, and the following year composed an essay on the Instauration of Philosophy.
Her Early Appearances in Weimar, Berlin, and Leipsic, She becomes the Idol of the Public. Her Charms as a Woman and Romantic Incidents of her Youth. Becomes affianced to Count Rossi. Prejudice against her in Paris, and her Victory over the Public Hostility. She becomes the Pet of Aristocratic Salons. Rivalry with Malibran. Her Début in London, where she is welcomed with Great Enthusiasm.
The poet of the company within him claimed the word and was allowed by the others to dilate on Clotilde's likings, and the honeymoon or post-honeymoon amusements to be provided for her in Pyrenean valleys, and Parisian theatres and salons. She was friande of chocolates, bon-bons: she enjoyed fine pastry, had a real relish of good wine.
The Princess, in the salons of the Palais Royal, wrote in a style not very unlike that which might be expected in the present day from the tenants of its garrets. A more complete biography than any which has hitherto been drawn up is likewise added to the present edition. In other respects we have faithfully followed the original Strasburg edition.
Ah, well she giveth no sign; and to-morrow she also setteth sail for Cyprus, being created chief lady in waiting to her fair, young cousin." "The Lady of the Bernardini in the court of the Caterina! Impossible! She, in whose salons one might not think one's own thoughts!" "By San Tadoro! one might think them, at one's ease, so only they were of a quality to please her."
He goes out into society a great deal, and is most commonly seen in the military offices and in the best "salons" of St. Petersburg. One night, when he is asleep at a courtesan's house, he mutters the war-cry of Japan: "Banzai! Banzai!" The courtesan denounces him to a policeman who happens to be there, and the pseudo-captain, who is no other than a colonel in the Japanese army, is arrested.
After this epigram, or rather, this satire on the company, so true and so concise that it hit every one, the usual game of boston was proposed. Is not this a picture of life as it is at all stages of what we agree to call society? Change the style, and you will find that nothing more and nothing less is said in the gilded salons of Paris.
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