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The evening bells, distinct and mysterious, were sounding as he emerged from New Orleans' Mabille, and their crystalline tones, rising and falling on the solemn night, brought to mind his boyhood.

When one of these looked in and passed on, I could not help thinking "Now this don't afford you any satisfaction a party with his head shot off is what you need." One night we went to the celebrated Jardin Mabille, but only staid a little while.

It was a veritable town in miniature, with a pattern of checker-board streets Columbine street, Polichinelle street, Avenue des Parades, Place des Parades, Street of the Chanson, and the like. There were more than five hundred booths, all numbered shops and restaurants. There were the Salon Curtius, the Ménagerie Bidel, the Bal Mabille, the Café Bataclan, the American Tavern.

We had not yet set off one corner of the Common for a Jardin Mabille; we had not even the concert-cellars of the gay and elegant New Yorker; and nothing, really, had happened in Boston to educate us to this new taste in theatricals, since the fair Quakers felt moved to testify in the streets and churches against our spiritual nakedness.

You will make a whole family happy a grandfather who runs all the errands, a mother who is being worn out with work, and two sisters one of them very plain who make thirty-two sous a day while putting their eyes out. It will make up for the misery you have caused at home, and you will expiate your sin while you are having as much fun as a minx at Mabille."

Whether that or the Jardin Mabille is nearer the stand-point of the Bible, every one must decide for himself. When I say "this is right, this is wrong," I do not wish to be understood as settling the question for others, but as expressing my own strongest conviction.

Lady Kirkbank's attendant, a Frenchwoman of five-and-thirty, who looked as if she had graduated at Mabille, was to occupy the back seat of the landau. Lady Mary looked after her sister longingly, as the carriage drove down the hill.

Nay, it has been whispered that more than once close veiled and clinging tightly to her husband's arm Isabel witnessed at Mabille and the Chaumière the choregraphic triumphs of Frisette, Pomare, and Mogador. My hand trembles while I record such enormities and backslidings.

"At the feast, or in giving the money," queried Mabille. "At the feast, to be sure," d'Hebonville answered. "Come, now; we should have no feeling in this matter," cried des Mazes. "We will decide for you, Mabille." "Old Bauer must not dream that there are any of his class who do not share in the matter," said Comneno. "That would be showing a preference, and a preference is never fair."

Come, let's move off," with a quick glance over his shoulder. "Oh," laughs the student, "she's up stairs yet," and his words are corroborated, for a burst of almost masculine laughter comes floating down from the next floor, causing Philander to shrug his shoulders. "She'll imagine I'm off seeing the sights. I went to see the modern Mabille in Paris and have never heard the last of it.