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Her Ladyship attended Almack's; my Lord took his seat in the House; and I looked in at Lady Doubtful's where we do not visit, but where the Marchioness wishes to be civil." "We do not visit Lady Doubtful either," replied Miss Gusset: "she had not a card for our fete champetre. I was so sorry you were not in town. It was so delightful!" "Do tell me who was there? I quite long to know all about it.
Early yesterday morning the garde champetre who is the only thing in the way of a policeman that we have marched up the road beating his drum. At every crossroad he stopped and read an order. I heard him at the foot of the hill, but I waited for him to pass. At the top of the hill he stopped to paste a bill on the door of the carriage-house on Pere Abelard's farm.
Of this alone there could be no manner of doubt. "Well, young ladies!" said Mrs. Sam Hurst, "I left you very quiet, but there seems to be plenty going on now-a-days. What a beautiful moon there was last night! I put up my window to look at it, and all at once I found there was a party going on below. Quite a fête champêtre. I have newly come from abroad, you know, and it seemed quite congenial.
But delicacy and pride always restrained its expression. I waited for him to say, "Gabriella, would you like to go?" The morning after her arrival she ransacked the papers, and fastening on the column devoted to amusements, read its contents aloud, to the evident annoyance of Ernest. "Niblo's Garden, the inimitable Ravels La Fête champétre, dancing on the tight-rope, etc. Yes, that's it.
It was about nine o'clock; coffee was about to be served. Outside, under the apple-trees of the first court, the bal champetre was beginning, and through the open window one could see all that was going on. Lanterns, hung from the branches, gave the leaves a grayish green tint.
The garde champêtre, a tall, dried-up fellow, whose name no one knew, but who was called the Emperor, no doubt because he had served under Charles X, as a matter of fact exercised no burdensome supervision over the commune which was all bare rocks and waste lands. A sub-prefect who patronized him had created for him the sinecure where he devoured in peace his very small living. 2 Watchman.
Mr Foster looked down at a most unexceptionable pair of pantaloons, which had arrived from London only the day before. They were the very things, at least he thought so, for a picnic of fete champetre; but he was not prepared to ride in them.
At imminent peril of being robbed, she brought to the country, and carried about everywhere with her, an amazing number of jewels, wearing two or three different sets at different times of the day displaying them on the most absurdly improper occasions at a fete champetre, or a boat race.
L , who had set his heart upon the fete champetre, persisted, and combatted her antipathy by reason. Foolish man! he should have tried compliments, or caresses if I had not been present. "My dear Leonora," said he, "I think you carry your dislike to these things too far. They are more according to the French than to the English taste, I know; but we should not be influenced by national prejudice.
Had the charges against Jo Jo been stronger my tale would have been longer fortunately for tout le monde they had no basis; and back went Jo Jo to his native Paris, leaving the Guard Champetre with Judas and attacks of only occasionally interesting despair. The reader may suppose that it is about time another Delectable Mountain appeared upon his horizon.
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