The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-05-06

"Who did ?"
"The gentleman, OF course"
Bat, my dear girl, people alway
give three cashmeres. Only think
minute; the long cashmere for calls il
winter well, that's one then you mus
have a square one it would kill you t.
W. ar n long cashmere in hot weather
ana then you could not refuse thirC
to go to the bath or mass in-well, tina
makes three, don't you see? | woulC
not be married with fewer. No, thanh
you, ! wouldn't go about looking like {
chambermnid. No, indeed l wouldn't
did the gentleman limp badly
For, after all, he was a consul" "
"Oh, as to that, his position was (
magnificent one. 1t seems that in tn,
country where he is consul people ar
carried in palanluins."
"That's the least thing they can d.
for lame people. As for me, l thinl
she has done quite right. / have hor
ror of deformed people one IL neyel
sure that it may not be something
catching Do you remember Slstel
Adelaide at the convent, who had ont
leg shorter than the other? Well,
wouldn't have sat down in her chair fol
a hundred thousand francs. "
"What would you have done if you
had to marry her?"
How silly you are Don't look over
there | see NJ. Pincette coming to ask
us to dance. The more | see of him,
the more | detest him. He is stupid,
he is fair, his whiskers are large, he
doesn't dance in time ; he has no at
fractions. Don't you think he looks
like the Able Julien, who used to hear
our catechisms, and who was always
saying, Not another word, my chill
dren'?"
eyes, he does look like him, espe-
cially when he is waltzing he has the
same eyes. As for me, don't like a
man who looks like a priest. That is
not saying anything against priests,
my dear. In the first place, a man
ought to have brown mustaches with
out them he is not worth looking at.
Have You seen my brothers mustaches
since he left Saint. Cyr? That is the
kind of mustaches / like-pointed,
pointed aud waxed. | used to do them
for him last summer, and | fully un-
derstand them"
ernest is fne.looking young
man and then he's 80 strong"
81 hate II Hercules. NJ. de Saint.
Flair is not handsome, is he? Well,
can see very well how he fascinated
Adele with his pale face, thin hair, ant
his look of illness.
"Your M. de Saint-Flair looks as if
he were Just getting over fever. When
he is sitting around in the corners !
am always tempted to offer him a bowl
of Cruel"
ooh, that's all very well, but as for
distinction, | don't see any one who
comes up to him. And then, too, they
say he writes poetry"
"StiIl, | must say | prefer M. de
y
"What m idea NJ. de P! He's
perfect barrel, and besides he's forty.
six or orty-eight years old"
We'll my, dear, man has to be ms
old as that to be able to offer woman
an acceptable position. It's not at all
bad to be the wife of a banker.
At this moment tho music began, and
the men came forward to ask my little
ncighbors to dance. They accepted
Ian uidly, with Il half indifferent air.
The gentlemen placed their opera hats
on the chairs the ladies had left, and
they all advanced, talking, to join the
dancers. / followed them with my
eyes through the crowd. Each aban-
doned herself with charming grace to
her partners arm, turning her head a
little to one side, her hair floating on
the waves of the waltz. Perhaps there
was exaggerated ease and trace OF
childish awkwardness in their manner.
In ten minutes they came back to Their
places, ont of breath, but with bright
eyes. They took up their fans agarn,
and while tanning themselves went on
with their conversation.
That gentleman dances very well, but
he's queer creature he talked to me
about geography. Do you know the
principal town in the departments OF the
eastern Pyrenees?"
"No, | have forgotten. Dear me !!
how warm I am! | danced with that
partner of yours the other evening; he
talked about geography to me, too.
Isn't it strange that some partners al
ways say the same thing over and over
again.
"Oh, there is mamma making me a
q, 70 homo ()h
dear no, indeed 1t will be like the
other evening, when we should have
gone to bed as early rs the hens if mann.
ma hadn't been asked for the German.
Tell your cousin TO ask mamma to
dance, and to ask me. l like him very
much he at least makes You laugh,
even if you don't understand very well
what he is talking sbout. He seems
sometimes to be making fun OF you, but
that's no matter he's very nice; and
then, too, he holds you firmly while
dancing, so that you feel perfectly com,
| Portable.
Toward 2 o'clock in the morning
after having looked through M. de b,
collection OF etchings and played gam
of whist, l returned to my station be
hind the three girls. Two we're bravel
drinking a glass Of claret, and the thir
a cup Of chocolate. They were laugl
ing SO loud while leaning back in the
chairs, and 80 talking all together, th'
could scarcely catch what they SAT
but saw by their loosened hair, al
the brilliancy of their eyes, and the
feverish agitation, that they had n
wasted their time. Their mothers, wi
were quite as animated, had collectt
together, and three or four gentlemt
had gathered round them saying
1 thousand charming bits OF nonsens
The gayety had become SO fast an
l furious in that corner that despalrt
e Of hearing any more, so l went back
s the ante. chamber.
What charming women my adorab
8 little girls will have become in fe
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