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At the same time that they race at Longchamps and Chantilly the great fillies of the year, they take from their boxes the great heiresses of the year who are ripe for matrimony, and in a series of white balls given for that purpose, between Easter Sunday and the Grand Prix, they are made to take little trial gallops before connoisseurs.
Monsieur and Madame live on the third floor, have but one cook, give dances in a salon twelve foot by eight, lit by argand lamps; but they give a hundred and fifty thousand francs to their daughter, and retire at the age of fifty, an age when they begin to show themselves on the balcony of the opera, in a fiacre at Longchamps; or, on sunny days, in faded clothes on the boulevards the fruit of all this sowing.
Bowling quickly along the broad Allée de Longchamps, he turned into the Route de l'Etoile, and so to the fine avenue where all Paris takes the summer air. He found himself eying the parade of fashion in a curiously detached mood. Yesterday he thought himself part and parcel of that gay throng. To-day he was a different being.
The gay crowds on the Bois, and the races at Longchamps, and the little place in the Rue Notre Dame des Champs and Saint Antoine, in the Norman hills and the fuss they made over the newly-wedded couple!
The little French Judge held out his glass for a crème de menthe; his eyes were sparkling with suppressed excitement; he gazed deep into the shining green liquid as if seeing therein a moving panorama of pictures, then he began: On a dusky autumn evening, a young man, tall, olive-skinned, tramps along the road leading from Paris to Longchamps. He is walking with a quick, even swing.
The Bois de Boulogne is literally and absolutely a playground, the playground of the people, and this last Sunday of mine, not fewer than half a million of Parisians were making it their own. Half of these encircled the Longchamps racecourse.
I have sent Billy a box of them for Christmas of mechanical soldiers, I mean. The chief difference I noticed was that Billy's were smaller than the live ones, although French soldiers are small enough. That portion of the French army which I have seen at Longchamps, Châlons-sur-Marne, Saumur, and at various other places are, as a rule, undersized, badly dressed, and badly groomed.
Potash," he said, "here comes Margulies' Harlem Express with them packages what we shipped it the Longchamps Store yesterday. Should I take 'em in?" Abe jumped to his feet. "Did Margulies bring 'em up?" he asked. "He had 'em just now on the elevator," Jake replied. "Wait, I go with you," Abe said.
Other new churches and public buildings without number have sprung up of late years, the crowning glory of Marseilles being its Palais de Longchamps. This magnificent group of buildings may be called a much enlarged and much more grandiose Trocadero.
Frederick-Christian, in fact, recalled that he had expressed a wish to attend the Longchamps meet, but he asked himself how it was possible to have notified him of the change of program while at that time he had mysteriously disappeared! But the climax of his amazement was reached when he came to the following paragraph: "Paris, 4th January.
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