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Updated: June 2, 2025
Yes, they were terrible-swallowed up the sands, eggshells, niggers, pierrots, bathing-machines, vulgarity, moonlight embracing, noise, sand, and dust. If you were any one at all you did not stay in Skeaton during the summer months-unless, as I have said, you were so grand that you could disregard it altogether.
And then there was another Englishman, Lord Clanricarde, the most inimitable of Pierrots, in a black skull-cap, with his melancholy face whitened, playing a series of nocturnal jokes, with the roof of a fiacre for his platform. Count d'Alton, too, M. de Chateauvillard, and others, were the authors of all kinds of witty fooling.
And as though to justify his fears, the ranks of tall pierrots swarmed and multiplied; their somersaults now covered the entire horizon, the whole sky on which they landed now on their heads, now on their feet. Then the hoof beats paused. He was in the passage, behind a round skylight.
The rain was pouring down in torrents; a cheery, boisterous John Bull sort of an east wind was blustering through the streets at the rate of fifteen miles an hour. Pierrots, with frozen hands, were blowing blue noses. An elderly Cupid had borrowed an umbrella from a cafe and was waiting for a tram. A very little devil was crying with the cold, and wiping his eyes with the end of his own tail.
"I don't think he objects to Pierrots as Pierrots. But in my case he thought a Pierrot wouldn't be adequate." "I don't follow that." "He said that the costume of Pierrot, while pleasing to the eye, lacked the authority of the Mephistopheles costume." "I still don't get it." "Well, it's a matter of psychology, he said." There was a time when a remark like that would have had me snookered.
Oh, here's one of the Pierrots!" I hung the pail on my nose and looked at her. "As one of the organizers of the fete," she said hastily, "I must thank you " "Nothing doing, madam," said I, in an assumed voice. "But" "Free list entirely suspended, madam," and I shook the pail mercilessly.
At the Tuileries, everybody, even the King himself, calls her little daughter "Chiquette." The Prince of Joinville calls his wife "Chicarde" since the pierrots' ball, hence "Chiquette." At this pierrots' ball the King exclaimed: "How Chicarde is amusing herself!" The Prince de Joinville danced all the risquee dances. Mme. de Montpensier and Mme.
I had suggested that he should make the acquaintance of the pierrots as soon as the curtain was down, but this he would not do. "To-morrow will be time enough; besides, I want to see them with the paint off." We called on them on the following morning. They had rooms in a quiet street in Fairtown.
To-day I myself saw a carnival procession in the village piazza a veritable survival of the Middle Ages; a triumphal car wreathed in flowers, driven by masquerading mummers and surrounded by Pierrots and peasant buffoons, a thoroughly naive and primitive bit of religion. But it needed a perceptible effort to shake off the sense of the operatic, to accept the thing as genuine.
There were also the delightful shows of the amusement pier where one could go and see Pierrots to one's heart's content, if one can ever get enough of Pierrots; I never can. Besides all these daytime things there were two very good theatres, at one of which I saw Mr.
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