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Updated: May 28, 2025
It had all happened so quickly that she would have thought she was dreaming but for the cold night air and the dingy waste of the Bowery with the streetwalkers and drunken bums strolling along under the elevated tracks. She had trifled with the opportunity too long. It had flown in disgust, dislodging her as it took flight.
It was on the same evening that definite hostilities may be said to have begun. Between the Palace and the market-place there was a narrow street of flagged stone, which was busy during the early part of the day but deserted after sundown. Along this street, at about seven o'clock, John was strolling with a cigarette, when he was aware of a man crouching, with his back toward him.
She found much amusement in strolling up and down the arcades of the Rue de Rivoli, watching the odd throngs at which Paris herself seemed, to bend her head and stare. Some poet had called Paris the mistress of Europe. She looked like an old trollop. She was dirty and dreary, unpainted and unwashed.
After a short time she and her husband were separated on the condition of her sacrificing to the man whom she had married the whole of the little fortune that she possessed in her right. "Gaining her freedom, my mother had to gain her daily bread next. Her family refused to take her back. She attached herself to a company of strolling players.
"You couldn't splash about much.... You shave at that, I suppose." "I don't. One shaves. There's a better apartment he could have got for the same price, but manlike he didn't find it out till too late. What's this bedroom?... Yes, there's the bed." They stepped back into the sitting-room, and Carlisle, strolling aimlessly about, became a little silent and distrait.
There were music and dancing, and there were lively groups of ladies and gentlemen strolling from room to room, contrasting somewhat strangely in their gayety with the solemn pictures hanging on the walls, and a sense of shadowy presence which seems to haunt those dusky interiors.
So he began to court her company again, to propose riding with her, to sing to her, to join her whenever she was strolling about the grounds, to make himself agreeable, according to the ordinary understanding of that phrase, in every way which seemed to promise a chance for succeeding in that amiable effort. The girl treated him more capriciously than ever.
"I'll give you one instance now, as a specimen of his character: He and I, strolling one day on the side of a common, saw two boys picking hips and haws from the hedges; one seemed to be about five, and the other a year older; they were both barefoot and ragged, but at the same time fat, fair, and in good condition. 'Who do you belong to? said Mr. Greaves.
It was evident that the plan now was to go and take a position under the walls of Paris and there await the Prussians; and it was fortunate that that plan had received the approbation of the government, for was it not the wisest thing they could do? Maurice devoted the afternoon of the 21st to strolling about the camp in search of news.
Here I am with another play already underway, so as to keep my hand in. I have a novel also on the stocks, on the STROLLING PLAYERS. I have studied them a good deal this time without learning anything new. I already had the plot. It is not complicated and is very logical. I embrace you tenderly as well as your little mother. Give me some sign of life. Does the novel get on? G. Sand
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