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Title: The mirror of the world
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Uzanne, Octave, 1852-1931 Avril, Paul, b. 1843, ill
Subjects: Manners and customs
Publisher: London : J.C. Nimmo
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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e aits to gambolunder the willows, is delighted when he can smell the frying offish or omelets, and willingly sits down in an arbour to digest hisfood, or to give vent to merry songs and to be noisy.—As for theyachting-man, he is a correct and immensely wealthy gentleman,who likes to air his weariness in a moving prison, in which heonly acts as honorary captain. He commands a cook, several ser-vants, and a small crew engaged by the year. He comes on boardwith joy, and leaves it disgusted and sad ; hence there are so fewmen in France who keep their yacht for several years withoutletting it out to some other millionaire in search of fashionablepleasure, who will try yachting just long enough to find out howdull and useless it is. The most exquisite and most charming sport,that which suits best oui- spirit of strife and indo-lence, and perhaps a dreamer too. is swimming in the open sea. The rocking of thewaves produces in usa profound intoxica-tion, a disturbing de-light, an amphibious
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^ • THE MIRROR OF THE WORLD. comfort which only those powerful Tritons can understand whoswim a good distance, far from the crowds on shore, or from thepetty bathers who bob about the buoy, and chatter like magpies.—To swim a certain distance through waves fringed with silver, andto be rocked by them, to rest on this thick and soft couch whilstgazing blissfully at the infinity of the Heavens, to be dreamingamidst this immensity and to have the sensation of feeling onesbody renovated by these comforting waters, which arc somewhatlike the fountain of Jouvence, is really to live and to enjoy onesstrength ; it is to glide in a new world ; it is, in short, to movewithout feeling the weight of ones carnal humanity.

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