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136 NOTICES OF BOOKS. "
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6.—Les Salons De Paris. By Madame Ancelo...
sai end d . nothing Well At last ' I of said lie what entered with had occurred , v indifferen ery hastil . t I y was a , an tone d obli ap as ged olog 1 to ised could question for assume being him , . ' how late has , but it
gone " ' ? Oh ' perfectl ,, wellMonsieurthough there was a little noise . '
" " " ' ' Yes During , Monsieur the traged le Vicom y , ? ' I te exclaimed during , t , tragedy , but it did not last long —• ,
, they were soon as merry as ever . ' " c Oh Merry ! ' Sir I repeated I am sure . they were pleasedfor they did nothing but laugh ;
so that at yes las , t I began , to laugh too . '" , Yetafter allthis apparently naive confession "was probably only
another , mode of , challenging admiration . Another remarkable figure is that of the gay Duchess d'Abrantes , that at this time
rejoicing of and ni thus ght" as affording she she need sate to not cosil the fear y astonished gossi the intrusion ping hostess to a either late a hour g of limpse bores , of or the creditors petty "
and degrading miseries that were eating away the life so dazzling to the mere looker-on .
au thoress When " I first occup becam ied a e suite acquainte of apartmen d with ts Madam on the e ground d'Abrantes floor , , " t t he t s the of
you the Hue might de , fi Richelieu nd scattered . T abou hey opened t the lawn into person a garden s of , most and all t poli here tical in op the inions military summer , the
men most eccen artists tric men and of strikin letters g of as every well colour as gay , young all the chiefl distinguished y famous for their danci , and , the younDuke , her eldest son , who following in the footsteps of
is his worth parent ng , 25 , said centimes , showing n _^ ow a ; threepenny but when I stamp shall , hav c You e p see ut my si iece gnature of paper to it ; , it it
will be worth nothing . ' " duchess One evening herself the when gayest the company of the gay was keep especiall ing every y merry body , laug and hing . the
at her inexhaustibly droll stories , it was , noticed that the tea had not been servedthough it was nearly two hours beyond the
custom-, the ary time morning . The some cause desperate of the delay want was of money afterwards had discovered and occasioned it had . been the In
found whole necessary plate being to send swep round t off to and the borrow pawnbroker dAncelot some tea had ' s , -spoons left . at
On another occasionwhen Madame 'a party thrown an unusuall carelessl y earl on y hour the , seat , and an taken open letter a hired , con carriage taining , the she bitterest found ,
reproaches addressed y by a creditor , to an evidently dishonest debtor —and that debtor was the brilliant Duchess d'Abrantes—the closing whose cofnn
scene of whose life was a miserable garret , and was furn We ished have by other charity forei . books before usbutnot wishing to fill
our pages with a mere gn list of names , we mus , t for , the present defer
mention of them .
136 Notices Of Books. "
136 NOTICES OF BOOKS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1858, page 136, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041858/page/64/
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