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This brought the argument to a pause, during which Beaumont remembered that grouse were shot in August, and settling her diamonds in her ears, she agreed that the tour was to be continued. A few more remarks were made, and then the party adjourned to a neighbouring 'pub. to talk of opera bouffes and bad business.
"'That this portrait is for Monsieur Gonin, or anybody else at Fontainebleau. "Mademoiselle Charnot drew back in surprise. "'For whom, then? "'An actress. "'Take care what you are saying, Madame. "'For Mademoiselle Tigra of the Bouffes. "'Lies! cried Dufilleul. 'Prove it, Madame; prove your story, please! "'Look at the back, answered Madame Plumet, quietly.
He was expected to dinner with one of the most lovely of foreign Ambassadresses, and was to go with her afterward to the Vaudeville, at the pretty golden theater, where a troupe from the Bouffes were playing; but he felt anything but in the mood for even her bewitching and in an marriageable sense safe society, as he stopped his horse at his own hotel, the Badischer Hof.
I have to ask the young woman Nada Tsourikoff to call here to see you." The monk having granted permission, Hardt, passing into the study, was soon speaking with the popular young dancer of the Bouffes. "You will call here at noon, eh?" he asked, to which she gave a response in the affirmative.
"I will pose for you as Milord with all the pleasure in life," I said; "only I cannot undertake to pose for the traditional Milord of the Bouffes Parisiens! However, I will speak some English, and, if you like, I'll know no French." "No, no diable! you must know a little, or I can't exchange a word with you. But very little the less the better. And now I'll let them in."
It was in regard to this very tittle that De Maupassant had a disagreement with Audran and Boucheron director of the Bouffes Parisiens in October, 1890 They had given this title to an operetta about to be played at the Bouffes. The former soldier, Mederic Rompel, familiarly called Mederic by the country folks, left the post office of Roily-le-Tors at the usual hour.
"I have suspected as much since yesterday; I met her at the Salon, and saw a young man with her." "Fair?" "Yes." "Tall?" "Rather." "Good-looking?" "H'm well" "Dufilleul, old chap, friend Dufilleul. Don't you know Dufilleul?" "No." "Oh, yes you do a bit of a stockjobber, great at ecarte, studied law in our year, and is always to be seen at the Opera with little Tigra of the Bouffes." "Poor girl!"
"'That this portrait is for Monsieur Gonin, or anybody else at Fontainebleau. "Mademoiselle Charnot drew back in surprise. "'For whom, then? "'An actress. "'Take care what you are saying, Madame. "'For Mademoiselle Tigra of the Bouffes. "'Lies! cried Dufilleul. 'Prove it, Madame; prove your story, please! "'Look at the back, answered Madame Plumet, quietly.
"I have suspected as much since yesterday; I met her at the Salon, and saw a young man with her." "Fair?" "Yes." "Tall?" "Rather." "Good-looking?" "H'm well" "Dufilleul, old chap, friend Dufilleul. Don't you know Dufilleul?" "No." "Oh, yes you do a bit of a stockjobber, great at ecarte, studied law in our year, and is always to be seen at the Opera with little Tigra of the Bouffes." "Poor girl!"
We shall find the dramatization of the chatter of the street and the apparition of types familiar to the farcical comedies and operas bouffes of later days. In the washerwomen of Striggio we are not far from Madame Angot, and some of the personages whom Vecchi humorously treated in his "Amfiparnaso" are treading the stage of to-day.
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