The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-05-07

it seems he limped frightfully.
"WhO did 2"
"The gentleman, of course.
" But, my dear girl, people always
| give three cashmeres. Only think 6
minute; the long cashmere for calls in
wiDter-well, that's one then you must
have a square one it would kill you tC
wear a long cashmere in hot weather
| and then you could not refuse a third
| to go to the bath or mass in-well, that
makes three, don't you see? I would
not be married with fewer. No, thank
you, wouldn't go about looking like a
chambermaid. No, indeed wouldn't. "
did the gentleman limp badly
| For, after all, he was a consul"
"Oh, as to that, his position was q
magnificent One.- 1t seems that in the
country where he is consul people are
carried in palanquins.
''That's the least thing they can do
for lame people. AS for me, think
she has done quite right. 1 have hOr-
ror of deformed people one is never
sure that it may not be something
catching. Do you remember Sister
Adelaide at the convent, who had one
leg shorter than the other? Well, I
wouldn't have sat down in her chair for
a hundred thousand francs.
What would you have done if you
had to marry her?"
." How silly you are Don't look over
there 1 see NJ. Pincette coming to ask
us to dance. The more I see of him,
the more I detesb 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' p
eyes, he does look like him, espe-
cially when he is waltzing he has the
same eyes. AS for me, I 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 I ike-pOinted,
| pointed and waxed. used to do them
| for him last summer, and fully un
| derstand them"
ERNEST is a fne-looking young
man and then he's so strong"
"I hate 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, and
his look of illness"
"Your M. de Saint-Flair looks as if
! he were Just getting over a fever. When
he is sitting around in the corners 1
am always tempted to offer him bowl
of Cruel"
"Oh, that's all very well, but as for
distinction, I don't see any one who
comes up to him. And then, too, they
say he writes poetry"
Still, I must say prefer M. de
"What an idea M. de p He's
| a perfect barrel, and besides he's forty
six or forty eight years old"
g Well my, dear, a man has to be as
| old as that to be able to offer a woman
an acceptable position. It's not at all
bad to be the wife of a banker.
At this moment the music began, and
| the men came forward to ask my little
! neighbors to dance. They accepted
| Lang uidly, with a 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. I 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 a trace OF
| childish awkwardnes5 in their manner.
In ten minutes they came back to their
places, out of breath, but with bright
eyes. They took up their fans again,
and while tanning themselves went OH
with their conversation.
That gentleman dances very well, but
he's a queer creature he talked to me
| about geography. Do you know the
principal town in the department of the
eastern Pyrenees?"
"No, I have forgotten. Dear me
how warm ami 1 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 g
sign that it is time to go home. Oh
dear no, indeed It will be like the
other evening, when we should have
| gone to bed as early as the hens If nam
ma hadn't been asked for the German
Tell your cousin to ask mamma *
dance, and to ask me. like him very
much he at least makes you laugh
even if you don't understand very vel
what he is talking fbOut. He seemI
sometimes to be making fun of you, bu
that's TO matter he's very nice anC
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 NJ. de b
collection of etchings and pIayed a gam
of whist. l returned to my station be
hind the three girls. Two were brayel.
drinking glass Of claret, and the thlr'
a CUP OF chocolate. They were laugh
inc so loud while leaning back In theI
chairs, and 80 talking all together, tina
7 could scarcely catch what they said
; bat saw by their looFened hair, an
? the brillianCy of their eyes, and thti
] feverish agitation, that they had no
{ wasted their time. Their mothers, VIII
/ were quite as animated, had cOIecte
, together, and three or four gentleme
had gathered round them saying
1 thousand charming bits of nOnsens'
The eayety had become so fast an
L furious IN that corner that 1 despsire
Q of hearing any more, so I went back
s the ante chamber.
What charming women my adOrab
s little girls will have become In q fe
years
2 Pray do not think that the fever
/ pleasure, that candlelight and love
G waltzing viii st all impair the sol