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Updated: May 15, 2025
I give you always a gentle hand with my razor of velvet. My mouth recites while my hand works." When Jasmin desired to display his oratorical powers, he went in the evenings to the quarter of the Augustins, where the spinning-women assembled, surrounded by their boys and girls. There he related to them his pleasant narratives, and recited his numerous verses.
'Lady Athene, says Praxinoë, 'what spinning-women wrought them? What painters designed their drawings, so true they are? I haven't time to read it all to you now, but I must just give you the little bit where they quarrel with a stranger. It's too absolutely priceless. "A Stranger. You weariful women, do cease your endless cooing talk! You bore one to death with your eternal broad vowels!
When the stern winter set in, Jasmin spent his evenings in the company of spinning-women and children, principally for the sake of warmth. A score or more of women, with their children, assembled in a large room, lighted by a single antique lamp suspended from the ceiling.
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