belladonna'd

Updated: May 27, 2025

Do we, when the week's work of your humbler people is done, see the laughter in dancing eyes in the Rue Mouffetard or, in the revel of your Saturday night, do we see only the belladonna'd leer of the drabs in the Place Pigalle?

H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken - Europe After 8:15