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Many doctors in white waistcoats and red ribbons are walking about; plenty of baigneuses, with their sleeves rolled up, showing a red arm that evidently has been constantly in the water; people who have had their baths and are resting, wrapped up in blankets, stretched out on long chairs near the windows; bells going all the time, cries of "Marie-Louise," "Jeanne," "Anne-Marie."
I have never seen such massive feminine charms as among the mature baigneuses of Etratal. The lean and desiccated person into whom a dozen years of matrimony so often converts the blooming American girl has no apparent correlative in the French race. A majestic plumpness flourished all around me the plumpness of triple chins and deeply dimpled hands.
She looked at it all with curiosity, touched the papers, and lifted them to look underneath. Bertin approached her, saying: "You will disarrange my disorder." Without replying to this, she inquired: "Who is the gentleman that wishes to buy your Baigneuses?" "An American whom I do not know." "Have you come to an agreement about the Chanteuse des rues?" "Yes. Ten thousand." "You did well.
A policeman presides at the public bathing place and there are three or four baigneurs and baigneuses who take charge of the timid bathers; one wonderful old woman, bare-legged, of course, a handkerchief on her head, a flannel blouse and a very short skirt made of some water-proof material that stood out stiff all around her and shed the water she was the première baigneuse seventy years old and had been baigneuse at Boulogne for fifty-one years.
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