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How soon then could he inspire her thoughts and bring her to his own standpoint. Then the fear would take hold of him that she could not do without theaters, frocks, soirees, and balls, and under the recent impression of the New-Year's party he became despondent, and said to himself, "No.

Often on the street the glance of strange eyes had lingered in her memory, and sometimes had disturbed her. Mr. Pontellier did not attend these soirees musicales. He considered them bourgeois, and found more diversion at the club. To Madame Ratignolle he said the music dispensed at her soirees was too "heavy," too far beyond his untrained comprehension. His excuse flattered her.

Two or three times each year, on occasions of unusual importance, such as the balls at the Austrian Embassy or the soirees of Lady Billingstone, the Countess de Dreux-Soubise wore upon her white shoulders "The Queen's Necklace."

He immediately became a great favourite with the ladies, and was asked by all the dowagers to as many balls and soirees as he could attend. At last the Prince of Wales sent for Brummell, and was so much pleased with his manner and appearance, that he gave him a commission in his own regiment, the 10th Hussars.

Other ill-wishers believed that his chief bait was the musical SOIREES he gave when a famous pianist came to the town.

'We must go back to the brilliant women of the eighteenth century to find anything like a parallel to you and your soirees. But bronchitis was an enemy with which even her high spirit was powerless to cope.

Look at that rich lot, next door to Lady Augusta's, with their carriages and servants, and soirees, and all the rest of their grandeur! their uncle was hanged for sheep-stealing." "I'd rather steal a sheep and be hanged for it, than help myself to a nasty bit of paltry money, and then deny that I did it!" foamed Gerald.

Ledger soirées, if so glitteringly bizarre as to draw high-browed frowns from the more reserved and staid of the thinning old guard of ancestor-worshipers, nevertheless, were enthusiastically hailed and eagerly attended by the younger set, and played no small part in the insinuation of "those St. Ledgers" into the realms of the anointed.

In 1838, Captain Johnson went to England with his noble band of musicians, where he met with great success played to Her Majesty Queen Victoria and His Royal Highness Prince Albert Captain Johnson receiving a handsome French bugle, by order of her Majesty, valued at five hundred dollars returning, he held throughout the Eastern, Northern, and Western States, grand concerts, known as "Soirees Musicales."

But at the most lethargic moment of this drowsy soirees, after the comedians from the Francais had played in a stately manner one act from a tragedy, Jocquelet appeared.