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"This is the first time you have been in Nice, eh?" she asked in her pretty broken English as she stopped a moment to open her sunshade. "Yes," I answered; "but the Count is an old habitué, I believe?" "Oh yes," she laughed; "he knows everybody. Last year he was on the Fêtes Committee and one of the judges at the Battle of Flowers."
In the mind of the habitué of the cheaper theatre it is the only sort in existence. It dominates the slums, is announced there by red and green posters of the melodrama sort, and retains its original elements, more deftly handled, in places more expensive. The story goes at the highest possible speed to be still credible. When it is a poor thing, which is the case too often, the St.
That is the case with those fleeting crowds who so largely contribute to its trade and prosperity; but the habitue' of Liverpool, the man who spends his days there, is a totally different order of being. The stranger sees the great city most generally through mist and fog; he regards the pavements as rough and slippery; he thinks the public buildings large, but ugly.
We may therefore imagine the grimace which contracted the puritan visage of Simon, who was forced to welcome graciously an habitue of his aunt's salon and an influential elector, in whom, nevertheless, he saw an enemy. "Ah!" he thought to himself, "what a mistake I made in refusing him that security when he asked for it!
It is not till our life is thoroughly disorganized, till the grave mother of a family finds herself perched on a donkey, or the habitué of Pall Mall sees himself sauntering along through the olive groves, that one realizes the iron bounds within which our English existence moves.
And who are these of our secondly, these "old families"? The spirit of our time and of our country knows no such thing, but the habitue of society hears constantly of "a good family." It means simply, the collective mass of children, grandchildren, nephews, nieces, and descendants of some man who deserved well of his country, and whom his country honors. But sad is the heritage of a great name!
He also brings a few biscuits not the biscuit of American fame, but the biscuit of English manufacture, the cracker, as we call it and those who frequent the smoking-room are in the habit sometimes of rising early, and, after a walk on deck, pouring out a cup of coffee for themselves." "But I do not expert to be a habitue of the smoking-room," said Miss Earle.
He was mad on this one point, and strangely shrewd and well-informed on almost every other. Arrayed in a faded-blue uniform, with brass buttons and epaulettes, wearing a cocked-hat with an eagle's feather, and at times with a rusty sword at his side, he was a conspicuous figure in the streets of San Francisco, and a regular habitue of all its public places.
He was instantly and cordially responsive to my question whether he had ever made the trip before, and he was amiably grateful when in my quality of old habitué of the route I pointed out some characteristic features of the scenery.
My chief interest in her was because she, too, was an habitue of this mysterious cafe; and because, from the first, I felt that she had some other than the obvious reason for sending me that little note. Nevertheless, it was for me to conceal these things, and I did not hesitate to take her hand in mine as we sat side by side. She did not draw it away, and she did not encourage me.
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