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Updated: June 16, 2025
She readjusted her hat, a tiny winged chariot of pink straw and designed after fashion's most epileptic caprice, coaxed her ringed fingers into a pair of but slightly soiled white gloves, her eyes the while staring past her slim reflection in the mirror and on to the mauve-colored swinging-door. "Good night, Gert."
The young couple would be continually in the very vortex of fashion's whirlpool, and though they would not resent the distinction, and might even enjoy the gaiety for a few weeks, they would have but little time left for each other between morning and midnight.
It even converted those whom it attacked; courtiers submitted to its decisions from fashion's sake, power from necessity, and the age of reform was ushered in by the age of philosophy, as the latter had been by the age of the fine arts. Such was the condition of France, when Louis XVI. ascended the throne on the 11th of May, 1774.
Then we take our way to the Capital, for, behold, it is mid-season; the sun of late June is warm upon the many-charioted streets, upon the parks where fashion's progress circles to the 'Io Triumphe' of regardant throngs, even upon the quarters where life knows but one perennial season, that of toil.
Here was the heir to unearned and untold increments. These attributes made him as delectable to the majority who did not know him, as he had become to the privileged few who did. Elsewhere, and particularly in and about fashion's final citadel which the Plaza is, solemn imbeciles viewed the matter vehemently. "Young Paliser! Why, there is no better blood in town!
She became thoughtful and inclined rather to stay at home with her babies than chase fashion's butterflies. Beauharnais chased fashion's butterflies, and caught them, too, for he came home late and quarreled with his wife a sure sign. He drank a little, gamed more, sought excitement, and talked politics needlessly loud in underground cafes.
It was life's waggish way that the project conceived in the obscure dreams of an out-at-elbows young man, and born a foundling upon his money, should have been adopted at sight as the spoiled darling of fashion's ultra-fashionable. Undoubtedly, astute Mr. Dayne had had somewhat to do with this, he who so well understood the connection between social prestige and the obtainment of endowment funds.
He saw himself as the victim of sudden fatuity, own brother to the longest-eared of fashion's worshippers. Assuredly this should be the last of his concessions. Inwardly pishing and pshawing, he drifted about the rooms till brought up beside Miss Tomalin. Then his mood changed. This girl, with her queer mixture of naivete and conceit and examination-room pedantry, decidedly amused him.
Oh fool! in the circle to shine That Fashion's gay daughters approve, You must speak as the fashions incline; Alas! are there fashions in love? Yet sure they are simple who prize The tongue that is smooth to deceive; Yet sure she had sense to despise, The tinsel that folly may weave.
And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart, distrusting, asks if this be joy. Goldsmith. A bright May morning, cold, it is true, and with a biting wind from the east as indeed our English May mornings generally are but sunny and cloudless as the heart can desire. On such a morning people do their best to pretend that it is summer.
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