ultra-parisian

Updated: June 29, 2025

He had arrived but an hour before, from London, from Lucerne, from Homburg, from no matter where though the visitor's fancy, on the staircase, liked to fill it out; and after a bath, a talk with Baptiste and a supper of light cold clever French things, which one could see the remains of there in the circle of the lamp, pretty and ultra-Parisian, he had come into the air again for a smoke, was occupied at the moment of Strether's approach in what might have been called taking up his life afresh.

Henry James - The Ambassadors