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Emile, you heard me speak of Monsieur Basil the gentleman who gave me that lovely shawl that I wore last Sunday to the Château des Fleurs eh bien! this is he and here is Monsieur Müller, his friend. Gentlemen, this is Emile, my fiancé. We are to be married next Friday week, and we are buying our furniture."
How she revels in the silver brocades, the violet-colored velvet robes, the crimson velvet carpets, the purple damask curtains fringed with gold and silver, the embroidered fleurs de lis, the wedding-caskets, the cordons of diamonds, the clusters of emeralds en poires with diamonds, and the Isabelle-colored linen, whereby hangs a tale!
He had chasubles, also, of amber-colored silk, and blue silk and gold brocade, and yellow silk damask and cloth of gold, figured with representations of the Passion and Crucifixion of Christ, and embroidered with lions and peacocks and other emblems; dalmatics of white satin and pink silk damask, decorated with tulips and dolphins and fleurs de lys; altar frontals of crimson velvet and blue linen; and many corporals, chalice-veils, and sudaria.
Her beauty, which was quite phenomenal, soon became the subject of poetry. Voltaire wrote: "De perles, d'astres et de fleurs, Bourbon, le ciel fit tes couleurs, Et mit dedans tout ce mélange L'esprit d'un ange! L'on jugerait par la blancheur De Bourbon, et par sa fraicheur, Qu'elle a prit naissance des lis."
She has made herself a laughing-stock since then. That is settled, Lewin" with a nod to the milliner "the silver fleurs de luces for the wedding mantua. And now be quick with your samples." All Angela's remonstrances were as vain to-day as they had been on the occasion of her first acquaintance with Mrs. Lewin.
Every one can now picture to himself the appearance of this corner of old Paris, where the bridge and quai still are, where the trees of the quai aux Fleurs now stand, but where no trace remains of the period of which we write except the tall and famous tower of the Palais de Justice, from which the signal was given for the Saint Bartholomew.
"Toute fragiles fleurs, sitôt mortes que nées." Victor Hugo. Mrs. H.H.A. Beach. Copyright, 1892, by Arthur P. Schmidt. Horace, you know, promises to write so that any one will think him easy to equal, though much sweat will be shed in the effort.
Above this notice was a black oblong board, and on this a shield, which in vulgar terms may be described as red charged with two swords crossed and four fleurs de lys, one in each angle of the saltire. Under the shield, in letters of gold, ran the legend: BERTRAND DES AMIS Maitre en fait d'Armes des Academies du Roi Andre-Louis stood considering.
We return to No. 10 and descend the Rue des Chantres to the Quai aux Fleurs: at No. 9, the site of the house of Abelard and Héloïse, an inscription recalls the names of the unhappy lovers, "... for ever sad, for ever dear, Still breathed in sighs, still ushered with a tear."
If ever I indite a volume to be entitled Adventures in Paris it will contain not a line to feed any prurient fancy, but will embrace the record of many little journeys between the Coiffeur and the Marche des Fleurs, with maybe an excursion among the cemeteries and the restaurants. Each city is as one makes it for himself.
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