d'orsayesque

Updated: July 31, 2026

Cannot one see the guests, a group entranced by its privilege the ladies with bandeaux and with little shawls to ward the dew from their shoulders; the gentlemen, D'Orsayesque all, forgetting to puff the cigars which the ladies, 'this once, have suffered them to light? One sees them there; but they are only transparent phantoms between us and Grisi, not interrupting our vision.

Sir Max Beerbohm - Yet Again