The American in Paris, during the summer : being a companion to the "Winter in Paris;", or Heath's picturesque annual for 1844 . nk that it is necessary to be lovelyeven in death. More than one, I imagine, ponders beforehand,the embroidery of her winding sheet. Poor creatures, distressedand yet courageous, devoted to their beauty, as Cato was de-voted to virtue ! For the rest, there is a French line whichexpresses exactly what I wish to say, EUe tombe, et, tombant, range ses vetements. The Parisian ladies have another good quality, which is, that nothing astonishes them. Madame de R had bade m
The American in Paris, during the summer : being a companion to the "Winter in Paris;", or Heath's picturesque annual for 1844 . nk that it is necessary to be lovelyeven in death. More than one, I imagine, ponders beforehand,the embroidery of her winding sheet. Poor creatures, distressedand yet courageous, devoted to their beauty, as Cato was de-voted to virtue ! For the rest, there is a French line whichexpresses exactly what I wish to say, EUe tombe, et, tombant, range ses vetements. The Parisian ladies have another good quality, which is, that nothing astonishes them. Madame de R had bade me farewell, as if she were never to see me again. She hadeven had the kindness, to present to me a cheek alreadyfeverish; she thought me far distant by this time, and yet;—It is you ! said she, giving me her hand, just as if we hadonly parted the evening before. I had a presentiment thatyou were not really gone; you were attracted to Paris bytoo great a curiosity and admiration; and besides, what isthere to hasten you ? You return to us ; you are quite right.—You see, replied I, that when once a person enters Paris, it. PARISIAN CAUSERIE. 147 is impossible to quit it.—Thereupon the conversation becamegeneral. There was present, an old gentleman of title, of ele-gant life, of clear, lively thought, a friend of General Lafayettes,a brother in arms of Washingtons, who, both from his intelli-gence and want of other occupation, played an important partin the first revolution. The conversation naturally turned uponlast century, which this nobleman loudly regretted, as onealways regrets the happy moments and the extravaganciesof youth; then he began to speak of all the men of formerdays, and all the women also, of the Duke de Richelieuand M. de Voltaire, of the painter Greuze, and of SophiaArnould, of whom Greuze made so beautiful a portrait. Ac-cording to this good gentleman, this famous Sophia Arnould,—to whom the eighteenth century lent all its bon mots, for thevery good re
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