Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1875-05-15

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=? 'sTtals the least thing they c
= do for same people. As for me,
n think pse has done quite right
\ have a horror of deformed PeOP
y one is never sure that it may not
something catching. Do you remel
; Der Sister Adelaide at the CONVEX
: who had. one leg shorter than I
other? Well. 1 wouldn't have S
a down in her chair for hunred tho
sand ffancs."
What would you have done II y
h had to marry her?"
How silly you are Don't lo'
a over there; l see N. Pincette comiI
= to ask US TO dance The more I 5,
of him, the more l detest him. He
7 stupid, he is fair, his whiskers a
! large, he doesn't dance in time; he b
= no attraciions. Don't you think
looks like the Able Julien, wi
= used to hear our catechisms, al
: who was always saying, Not anotl
= er word, my children'?'
''Yes he does look like him especia
ly when he is waltzing: he has tt
, same eyes. As for me, 1 don't ike
man who looks like priest. That
not saying anything against priests
my dear. In the first place, 4 ma
ought 10 have brown mustaches; Will
out them he is not worth looking al
Have you seen my brothers musti
ches siuce he left Saint-Cyr? That
the kind If mustaches like -pointe
tpeiptnsl ed waxed. I used TO do thsn
: for hsIa llst summer, iitIJl 4 fully utI
derstand them"
Ernest is a fine-looking yOunl
man: and then he's so strong"
II hate a Hercules. NJ. de Saint
Flair is not is not haddsOme, is he
/ Well, can sec very well how ht
| fascinated Adele with his pale face
thin hair, and his look oflllness.'
"Your M. de Saint Flair looks as il
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, l don't see any one
who comes up to him. And then, too,
they say he writes poetry"
"Still, 1 must say prefer NJ. de
P-w
"What an idea NJ. de p He's
a perfect barrel, and besides he's
forty-six or forty-eight years old"
''Well my, dear, man has 10 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 banker"
At this moment the music began,
and the men came forward to ask my
fittle neighbors to dance. They ac-
cepted languidly, with a half indIfer-
ent 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 abandoned herself with charm
ing grace TO her partners arm, turn
ing her head a little to enc side, her
hair floating on the waves of the
waltz. Perhaps there was exaggera-
ted ease and trace of childish aW k
warduess IN their manner. In ten
minutes they came back to their pla-
ces, out OF breath, Tut with bright
eyes. They took up their fans again,
aud while tanning themselves went
on with their conversation.
That gentleman dances very we'll,
but he's a queer creature; he talked
to me about geography. Do you
know the Principal town in the depart
ment OF the eastern Pyrcnnees?"
''No, have forgotten. Dear mel
how warm / 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?"
son, there is mamma making me a
sign that II is time to go home. Oh
dear no, indeed! 1t will be like the
other evening, when We should have
gone to bed as early as the hens il
mamma 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 under
stand very well what he is talking
about. He SCENE sometimes to be
fun OF you, but that's no mat
ter; he's very nice; aud then, too, lie
holds you firmly while dancing, so
that you feel perfectly comfortable"
Toward 2 O'clock in the morning,
after having looked through NJ. de
BIS collection of etchings aud PLAYED
a game of whist, 1 returned to my
station behind the three girls. Two
were bravely drinking a glass of clar-
ct, and the third a. cup of chocolate.
They were laughing so loud while
leaning back IN their chairs, and so
talking all together, that 1 could
catch what they said, but 1
saw by their loOsened hair, and the
of their eyes, and their fe-
yerish agitation, that th.y had not
wasted their time. Their mothers,
who were quite as animated, had col
Iected together, and three or four gen
tlemen had gathered round them say
ing thousand charming bits of non
5ese. The gayety had become so fast
and furious IN trat corner that des-
paired OF heariI-g any more, so went
back to the ante-chamber.
What charming women my adora-
BILE little girls will have become i'll a
lew yearsi
Pray do not think that the fever of
pleasure, that candlelight and love of
will at all impair the solid
treasurers which a good education
has stored up in their little hearts.
This very night when they got to bed
these three little angles viii piously
fold their hands beneath the quilt, so
as to keep warm, and will thank
Heaven for all that has been done for
them, and will prevent their going to
the opera TO mnrrow. Then, having
kissed the little gold medal which
protects them from fire and spraining
their ankles, and makes them dance
in time, they will fall fast asleep to
the dim murvur of a waltz, hk bird
in his nest.