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Indeed, I should have been bored with the crowd of fops with which the shop was always full. She began to be a topic of conversation in the town; the Palais Royal was full of her; and I was glad to hear that she kept to herself as if she had richer prey in view. That told me that no one possessed her so far, and I hoped that I might be the prey myself; I was quite willing to be captured.
Into whatsoever ballroom you went, you would surely find, among the women in tiaras and the fops and the distinguished foreigners, half a score of comely ragamuffins in velveteen, murmuring sonnets, posturing, waving their hands. Beauty was sought in the most unlikely places. Young painters found her mobled in the fogs, and bank-clerks, versed in the writings of Mr.
Capotes were there loose, flowing, and picturesque; and broadcloth tail-coats were there, of the last century, tight-fitting, angular in a word, detestable; verifying the truth of the proverb that extremes meet, by showing that the cut which all the wisdom of tailors and scientific fops, after centuries of study, had laboriously wrought out and foisted upon the poor civilised world as perfectly sublime, appeared in the eyes of backwoodsmen and Indians utterly ridiculous.
People often lose their patience when a dress is torn, or a pitcher broken, who would be quiet and calm if some serious misfortune had befallen them. I hope, boys, you intend to be gentlemen. I do not mean fops and dandies, but true gentlemen. You have perhaps seen the remark made, that "dress does not make the man, but after he is made, he looks better dressed up."
One night, after a signal triumph, he returned home, with his father, who had witnessed it, and Violante who all lovely, all brilliant, though she was, never went forth in her lord's absence, to lower among fops and flatterers the dignity of the name she so aspired to raise sprang to meet him.
"The loadstone of true beauty draws the heaviest substances not like the fat dowager, who frets herself into warmth to get the notice of a few papier mache fops, as you rub Dutch sealing-wax to draw paper. "If I were inclined to flatter I would say that, as you are unlike other women, you ought not to be won as they are.
I will exterminate the whole race of fops and puppies! As to her divorce! yes, divorce! a public and open divorce! I must write! I know all! It is your fault you ought to have told me!" These energetic and broken exclamations, his disturbed countenance and altered voice informed me but too well of the subject of his conversation with Junot.
In their place were the young and giddy, the headstrong sons of wiser fathers, the spendthrifts, the young fops of the period, those who went in for a fast life, to use a modern phrase who spent the night, if not the day, over the wine cup, and consumed their substance in riotous living such were they who gathered around Edwy the Fair and the yet fairer Elgiva.
If these things are so, how foolish to ask what is the best education for one or seven or sixty million souls! shall we teach them trades, or train them in liberal arts? Neither and both: teach the workers to work and the thinkers to think; make carpenters of carpenters, and philosophers of philosophers, and fops of fools. Nor can we pause here.
"Yes, always always offensive, always cruel," she said, with extreme energy; "but can you not understand, Signor Marchese, can you not conceive that what from one man passes and makes no mark, and leaves no sting, may from another What cared I what all the empty-headed young fops who came in my way could say or do; they were nothing to me.
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