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If they were his wife's idea of suitable books for jeunes filles I wondered vaguely with what exactly the grown-ups diverted themselves! I had not the heart to tell him I never read them. All the French people were extraordinarily kind and often came in to see me. They never failed to bring a present of some sort either.
6. de la Porte St. Martin. 8. du Vaudeville, Rue de Chartres. 9. Montansier, Palais du Tribunat. 10. de l'Ambigu Comique, Boulevard du Temple. 11. de la Gaiete, Boulevard du Temple. 12. des Jeunes Artistes, Boulevard St. Martin. 13. des Jeunes Eleves, Rue de Thionville. 14. des Delassemens Comiques, Boulevard du Temple. 15. sans Pretension, Boulevard du Temple.
Miss Justine Delande, a sedately gray-tinted spinster, has been tempted to remain on guard for a year out in India, having safely conducted this Pearl of Jeunes Personnes Bien Elevees out to the old Qui Hai.
"Will Monsieur have the goodness to move an inch to one side?" "How! At what are you gazing now? You are not recognising an acquaintance amongst that group of jeunes gens?" "I think so Yes, I see there a person I know." In fact, I had caught a glimpse of a head too pretty to belong to any other than the redoubted Colonel de Hamal. What a very finished, highly polished little pate it was!
Just opposite to it is the Prison pour les jeunes Détenus, or for juvenile offenders, and is a most extraordinary establishment; its exterior has the air of a baronial castle, and the interior is so arranged that it might answer the purpose of an hospital, as well as that of correction; it has circular turrets at the angles, and the central building is isolated from the others, and only approachable by iron bridges; the whole of the upper part of the building is a chapel, so contrived, that when the prisoners enter it from the different divisions, although they are all together, they can only see the individuals composing their own section, and the pulpit and altar; the prisoners are arranged in the different wings, according to their ages, and the degree of morality; there are about 500, and the different regulations are so meritorious, and the plan of the building so curious and ingenious, that the stranger will derive much pleasure from visiting this singular establishment.
Once more in the street in the bright May sun, after the fashion of nabobs, he took an open carriage and was carried to Massif, in the Passage des Princes. The editor of the Jeunes was seated in his office, which was decorated with etchings and beautiful bindings.
Since that song of his I forget the name, heart something or other her head has been completely turned about his talent. The fact is, Susan, Sennier's sudden fame has turned all their heads, the young composers, les jeunes, you know. They are all trying to write operas. In Paris it's too absurd! But an Englishman, with his temperament, too Oliver Cromwell in Harris tweed! she must be mad.
"Well, I shall be too happy to knock; mais, Monsieur sais, dat sleep est si agréable, pour les jeunes personnes! On n'a jamais knock, dans la famille de Monsieur de Barbérie, and je suis sûr, que Mam'selle Alide, do not love to hear de knock pourtant, si Monsieur le Patteron le veut, I shall consult ses Voila! Monsieur Bevre, qui vient sans knock
Over the dandies of her own time she still preserved her ancient empire; and it was amusing enough to hear the address of the ci-devant jeunes hommes, who continued, through habit, the compliments began thirty years since, through admiration. My mother was, indeed, what the world calls a very charming, agreeable woman.
Pichegru, whom the royalists transferred on to the new field of battle of the counter-revolution, was enthusiastically elected president of the council des jeunes. Barbe-Marbois had given him, with the same eagerness, the presidentship of the elder council.
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