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Identifier: aboutparis03davi (find matches)
Title: About Paris
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Davis, Richard Harding, 1864-1916 Gibson, Charles Dana, 1867-1944, illus
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Publisher: New York, Harper
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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theyes demurely fixed ahead of them, they canthrow off restraint and mix with all the men ofParis, and show their diamonds, and romp anddance and chaff and laugh as they did when theywere not so famous. The French swells whoare their escorts have cut down Chinese lanternswith their sticks, and stuck the candles insideof them on the top of their high hats with theburning tallow, and made living torches ofthemselves. So on they go, racing by—first ayouth in evening dress, dripping with candle-grease, and then a beautiful girl in a dinnergown, with her silk and velvet opera cloakslipping from her shoulders—all singing to themusic of the band, sweeping the people beforethem, or closing in a circle around some statelydignitary, and waltzing furiously past him toprevent his escape. Sometimes one party willstorm the band-stand and seize the musiciansinstruments, while another invades the stage ofthe little theatre, or overpowers the women incharge of the shooting-gallery, or institutes a
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INTERESTED IN THE WINNER THE GRAND PRIX AND OTHER PRIZES 151 hurdle-race over the iron tables and the wickerchairs. Or you will see ambassadors and men of titlefrom the Jockey Club jostling cockney book-makers and English lords to look at a little girlin a linen blouse and a flat straw hat, who isdancing in the same circle of shining shirt-frontsvis-a-vis to the most-talked-of young person inParis, who wears diamonds in ropes, and whorode herself into notoriety by winning a steeple-chase against a field of French officers. The firstis a hired dancer, who will kick off some gentle-mans hat when she wants it, and pass it roundfor money, and the other is the companion ofprinces, and has probably never been permittedto enter the Jardin de Paris before ; but they areboth of the same class, and when the music stopsfor a moment they approach each other smiling,each on her guard against possible condescensionor familiarity ; and the hired dancer, who is asfamous in her way as the young girl w

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