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A few ladies in sweeping trains, and very decolletees, sat looking on listlessly. The daughter of the house was nearing the piano. The Dean said to me, with a sly smile, "Now is the coup de grace!" his little joke. She sang, "Robert, toi que j'aime. Grace! Grace!" etc.
The city clerk can do better than Dick Swiveller, and decorate his bed-sitting room with a photographic gallery of décolletées duchesses, and bare-legged ladies of noble family, and he is able to obtain a vast amount of information, part of it quite accurate, concerning their doings.
Liaderes were the only ones who were not decolletees. "It is not in good taste," said the Queen. "But it is pretty," observed the King. At the Tuileries the Prince de Joinville passes his time doing all sorts of wild things. One day he turned on all the taps and flooded the apartments. Another day he cut all the bell ropes. A sign that he is bored and does not know what to do with himself.
The gentlemen appeared in regular hunting-dress: red evening coats, white buckskin trousers, top-boots, white cravats, and white vests; the ladies were decolletees en grande toilette. Our dinner lasted till ten o'clock. The French chef served a delicious repast; everything was faultless even to the minutest details; the servants were powdered, plushed, and shod to perfection.
If she had fallen through the ceiling out of a bathtub she could not have felt more in need of a hiding-place. She shrank into a corner and sought cover and concealment, for she was afraid to go back to the elevator through the ceaseless inflow of the decolletees. She throbbed to the music of the big band; her feet burned to dance; her waist ached for the sash of a manly arm.
When I first came to Trieste, I was often invited en intime to afternoon tea, and was told to come 'just as you are, my dear. I took the invitation literally of course; and when I arrived, I used to find the other ladies decolletees, and blazing with diamonds.
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