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Then Lily left the embankment and turned towards the Temple. "She is coming!" Mike cried, and laying down the opera-glass he took up the scent and squirted it about the room. "You won't make much noise, like a good fellow, will you? I shall tell her I am here alone." "I shall make no noise I shall finish my article. I am expecting Lizzie about four; I will slip out and meet her in the street.
"They are gallant troops, those yellow-plushed Anglais," said the Duke of Nemours, surveying them with his opera-glass. "'Tis a pity they will all be cut up in half an hour. Concombre! take your dragoons, and do it!" "Remember Waterloo, boys!" said Colonel Concombre, twirling his moustache, and a thousand sabres flashed in the sun, and the gallant hussars prepared to attack the Englishmen.
It was seen by this curious observer that the young man had an opera-glass with him, which he used a good deal at intervals. The spectator thought he kept it directed to the girls' boat, chiefly, if not exclusively.
Farewell!" and as she threw up her arms and shrieked to me to desist, I rolled up my eyes and sprang from the beam. For a moment I thought myself dead. The experience was different from what I had anticipated. Instead of feeling choked, I had a pain in my legs, and it seemed to me that I had been shut together like an opera-glass.
"Talbot," I said, "you have an opera-glass. Let me have it." "An opera glass! no! what do you suppose I would be doing with an opera-glass?" Here he turned impatiently toward the stage. "But, Talbot," I continued, pulling him by the shoulder, "listen to me will you? Do you see the stage box? there! no, the next. did you ever behold as lovely a woman?" "She is very beautiful, no doubt," he said.
As I felt sure that I should be introduced to ladies, and wished to make something of a figure, I spent an hour in dressing. I found myself in a box opposite to a pretty woman, who looked at me again and again through her opera-glass. That was enough to rouse my curiosity, and I begged M. de Lastic to introduce me; which he did with the best grace imaginable.
"Did you ever see a theater anywhere so full as this theater is to-night?" She handed me her opera-glass as she spoke. I moved to the front of the box to look at the audience. It was certainty a wonderful sight. Looking upward and upward, my range of view gradually reached the gallery.
I got my opera-glass and read and pleasant reading it was the following inscription: IN AFFECTIONATE MEMORY If this explanation of mine ever reaches my neighbours' eyes, I humbly hope they will have the humanity either to take away or tone down that tablet.
Why, on broiling days, men and women should sally forth from their hotel with a travelling-bag and an opera-glass slung about their shoulders, passes my comprehension. Conceive the condition of mind of that man who imagines that he is an impressive presence when he is patrolling the Rue de la Paix with an alpenstock in his hand!
The men of condition, as the judge, the sheriff, and the parson, whose dignity forbade them to receive the steamer in person, contented themselves with watching it through an opera-glass from their balconies; and if a high official was known to be on board, they perhaps displayed the national banner from their flag-poles, as a delicate compliment to their superior. But the Rev. Mr.
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