About Paris . ing to take the change of executive seri-ously, as representatives of the powers, but whowere really whispering that it would probablybring back the leadership of the fashionableworld to the Elysee, where it should be, andthat it meant the reappearance of many royalistfamilies in society, and the inauguration of mag-nificent functions, and the reopening of ball-rooms long unused. It was throughout a pretty, lazy, well-bredscene. Outside the entrance to the hotel, coach-men with the cockades of the different embassiesin their hats were standing at ease in their shirt-sleeves, and
About Paris . ing to take the change of executive seri-ously, as representatives of the powers, but whowere really whispering that it would probablybring back the leadership of the fashionableworld to the Elysee, where it should be, andthat it meant the reappearance of many royalistfamilies in society, and the inauguration of mag-nificent functions, and the reopening of ball-rooms long unused. It was throughout a pretty, lazy, well-bredscene. Outside the entrance to the hotel, coach-men with the cockades of the different embassiesin their hats were standing at ease in their shirt-sleeves, and with their pipes between their teeth;and the gentlemen, having finished their break-fast, strolled out into the court-yard and watchedthe hostlers rubbing down the coach-horses, orwalked up the hill to the palace, where the boysentries were hugging their guns, and wavingback the few surprised tourists who had come tolook at the pictures in the historical gallery, andwho did not know that the palace on that day. TO BRING A QUEEN BACK TO PARIS PARIS IN MOURNING 117 was being used for the prologue of a new histor-ical play. At the gates leading to the great Court ofHonor there were possibly two hundred peoplein all. They came from the neighboring streets,and not from Paris. None of these people spokein tones louder than those of ordinary converse,and they speculated with indolent interest as tothe outcome of the afternoons voting. A youngman in a brown straw hat found an objection toCasimir-Perier as a candidate because he was sorich, but he withdrew his objection when an old-er man in a blouse pointed out that Casimir-Perier would make an excellent appearance onhorseback. ^ The President of France, he said, must bea man who can look well on a horse; and thecrowd of old women in white caps, and boy sol-diers with their hands on their baggy red breech-es, from the barracks across the square, noddedtheir heads approvingly. It was a most interest-ing sight when compared with the anxi
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