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If one could watch the progress of an idle fancy of this nature, from the moment it springs from the caprice of some European elegante, with more time and money than she knows how to throw away, until it becomes a necessity to an American housemaid, earning a dollar a week we have no doubt the period would be found surprisingly short.
The daily expenses of Compiegne, so the Gouverneur de la Maison told us, and he ought to know, are not less than ten thousand francs a day, and there are more than nine hundred people living in the Palace at a time, to be fed and warmed. To-day, at five o'clock, the fourth serie will come; it is called la serie des oublies, as ours was called la serie elegante.
Would you, for the sake of your female friends, know the fashionable dress of a Parisian elegante, see Seneca on the transparent vestments of the Roman ladies, who, like these modern belles, were generous in the display of their charms to the public.
What effect such powerful, and as regards their causes, incomprehensible, effects had upon my opinion was shown in the frivolous way in which I was able to contrive a short criticism of Weber's Euryanthe for the Elegante Zeitung.
She is not as beautiful as Madame de Gallifet, nor as elegante as Countess Pourtales, nor as clever as Princess Metternich. These shares turned into gold in her hands. The royal gentleman gnashes his false teeth in vain, and has scene after scene with the royal son, who, green with rage, reproaches him for having parted with these treasures.
He was editor of a paper called the Zeitung für die Elegante Welt a curious title for a journal which frequently praised the democratic Richard. In the summer of 1834 he went for another holiday, this time to Teplitz, where he sketched Das Liebesverbot, his second opera to get finished and the first to be performed performed, by the way, in a very unusual fashion.
"Now for Madame de Santos: I have by some effort worked into the circle of gayety, where I have met her. She is royally beautiful. I should say about thirty-five. Her position is fixed as an 'elegante." Her turnout in the Bois is in perfect taste. She goes everywhere, entertains freely, and, if rumor is true, is very rich.
It was difficult to recognize Britta in the petite elegante who laughed and danced and chattered her way through some of the best salons in Paris, captivating everybody as she went, but there she was, all the same, holding her own as usual. Her husband was extremely proud of her he was fond of pointing her out to people as something excessively precious and unique and saying "See her!
In short, Mad. de P is a perfect specimen of the combination of an intrigante and an elegante, a combination often found in Paris. Here women mingle politics and gallantry men mix politics and epicurism which is the better mixture? I have business of importance to my country to transact to-day, therefore I am going to dine with the modern Apicius.
The moment was not a good one, and Rita's straight brows drew together ominously. "You have been amusing yourselves, it appears," she said, in the old withering tone that they were learning to forget. "Of course, here nothing matters; one may as well be a savage as an élégante in the wilderness; but I should be sorry to meet you in Havana, my cousins!"
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