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On Thursday, as Rosa went gayly into Madame Cie's back room to have the dresses tried on, Madame Cie said, "You have a beautiful lace shawl, but it wants arranging; in five minutes I could astonish you with what I could do to that shawl." "Oh, pray do," said Mrs. Staines. The dressmaker kept her word.
By the time the blue dress was tried on, Madame Cie had, with the aid of a few pins, plaits, and a bow of blue ribbon, transformed the half lace shawl into one of the smartest and distingue things imaginable; but when the bill came in at Christmas, for that five minutes' labor and distingue touch, she charged one pound eight.
Nearby were the one or two big dry-goods stores, with lovely gowns in their windows, and milliners' shops, with French hats in their smart Paris boxes there was even a very tiny, very elegant little shop where pastes and powders and shampooing were the attraction; a shop that had a French name "et Cie" over the door.
It is not surprising, on the whole, to find the critical tribe turning for relief from this somewhat unpleasant display of Gallic closet skeletons to the discreet exhibition of a few carefully chosen bones in the plays of Bernstein and Bataille, direct descendants of Scribe, Sardou, et Cie, but I may be permitted to indulge in a slight snicker of polite amazement when I discover these gentlemen applying their fingers to their noses in no very pretty-meaning gesture, directed at a grandson of Molière.
Abandoning this scheme as impracticable, and not being able to think of anything else to do he re-lit his pipe and started to read the letter again. Laurette et Cie, Regent Street, London, W., England. January 21st. Dear Ginger, I'm feeling better. As it's three months since I last wrote to you, no doubt you will say to yourself that I would be a poor, weak-minded creature if I wasn't.
Here no mean or unseemly building meets the eye, but all is made tributary to one grand effect; even the lamps with their supporters are of bronze and gold, whilst in the distance the gilded dome of the Invalides peers above all, and gives a brilliant termination to the sublimity of the scene. Lith. Rigo Frères et Cie Triumphal Arch.
Remembering Madame Cie, he drove in a cab to Regent Street, and asked for Mrs. Staines's account. "Shall I send it, sir?" "No; I will take it with me." "Miss Edwards, make out Mrs. Staines's account, if you please." Miss Edwards was a good while making it out; but it was ready at last.
The two ladies drove off to Madame Cie's, a pretty shop lined with dark velvet and lace draperies. In the back room they were packing a lovely bridal dress, going off the following Saturday to New York. "What, send from America to London?" "Oh, dear, yes!" exclaimed Madame Cie. "The American ladies are excellent customers. They buy everything of the best, and the most expensive."
I wouldnt deceive you or any man and to my drinking its about the best molasses that come out of a sugar-bush. Mr. Le Quoi has offered you ten pence, said young Edwards. The manufacturer stared at the speaker with an air of great freedom, but made no reply. Oui, said the Frenchman, ten penny. Jevausraner cie, monsieur: ah! mon Anglois! je l'oublie toujours.
Lith. Rigo Frères Cie St. The Louvre has been so often described in works of so many different natures, descending the different grades from histories to pamphlets, that I shall not fatigue my readers with a too detailed review of its wonders, but endeavour to give them some impression of its grandeur, with as little prolixity as possible.
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