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Updated: June 7, 2025
The great saloon in which the gay and laughter-loving Louise had given her superb balls and soirees in which her dancing feet had trampled upon her fortune and her happiness was now changed into a solemn temple of worship, where the pious believers assembled to pray to God and to adjure the devil.
He did not doubt that she knew through Maitland, himself, certainly informed by Chapron, of the two duels and of his injury. It was on her account that he had fought, and that very day she appeared in public, smiling, coquetting, as if two years of passion had not united their lives, as if he were to her merely a social acquaintance, a guest at her dinners and her soirees.
Do we not find those dinners and soirees the pleasantest where we see a minister next to a punster, a poet to a prince, and a coxcomb like me next to a beauty like Lady Dawton? The more variety there is in the conversation, the more agreeable it becomes." "Very just," answered Mr. Clarendon; "but it is precisely because I wish for that variety that I dislike a miscellaneous society.
The winter was gay, between musical evenings, children's parties, clerical feastings of district visitors, soirees for Sunday-school teachers, and Christmas-trees for their scholars.
The undertaking proved a great social success, and henceforth we hear of galas, soirees, theatricals and other entertainments increasing in splendour with the young artist's vogue and means. The history of the next twenty years reads like a page from the Arabian Nights.
Let him but succeed in this, and straightway his income is quadrupled his eldest son is member for a manufacturing borough, his second is a cornet in the Life Guards his daughter, with a fortune of one hundred thousand pounds, is married to the heir of a marquisate and his wife, soaring above the murky atmosphere of the factory, breathes the purer air of western London, and advertises her soirées in the Morning Post.
Frambord came out with half a column in the Critique des Arts with a pretty compliment to Alice's executive energy, and added 'that it was one of the rare soirées of the season. He must have been drunk when he wrote it. I played badly I never can play when they gabble. It was as garrulous as a fish market in front. Enfin!
With what haughtiness Augusto swaggered about at Sir John's soirees, though he was known to have borrowed Fernando's coat, and Luigi's dress-boots! If one or the other was ill, how nobly and generously his companions flocked to comfort him, took turns to nurse the sick man through nights of fever, contributed out of their slender means to help him through his difficulty.
He was invited to soirees by the prefect, by the archbishop, by the various social circles, as well as by the workmen's associations. They vied with each other for the honour of entertaining him. He went from matinees to soirees, and in ten days he appeared at thirty-four different entertainments. At length he became thoroughly tired and exhausted by this enormous fete-ing.
I am quite ashamed to tell you what long columns of flagrant description I was in the habit of reeling off touching certain races in the Bois de Boulogne, soirees at the Tuileries, and working-men's "demonstrations" in Hyde Park of which I was only an imaginative spectator!
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