Paris herself again in 1878-9 . e sea-son when loversof confectionery are accustomed to purchase candied violets and preserved daffy-dow-ndillies; but, oddly enough, the invisibility to the nakedeye of customers in Parisian shops of the superior class strikesme very forcibly, while it puzzles me desperately, not only whenT ramble in the Passages, but whensoever I take a turn on theboulevards. The shops in the side streets in which provisions aresold—the charcutiers and the rOtisseurs in particular—are alwaysthronged. The wine-shops and cafes—I counted seventeen ofthese drinking-places in the s
Paris herself again in 1878-9 . e sea-son when loversof confectionery are accustomed to purchase candied violets and preserved daffy-dow-ndillies; but, oddly enough, the invisibility to the nakedeye of customers in Parisian shops of the superior class strikesme very forcibly, while it puzzles me desperately, not only whenT ramble in the Passages, but whensoever I take a turn on theboulevards. The shops in the side streets in which provisions aresold—the charcutiers and the rOtisseurs in particular—are alwaysthronged. The wine-shops and cafes—I counted seventeen ofthese drinking-places in the space of five minutes perambulationof the Rue du Faubourg Montmartre—the cremeries, the cheaplinendrapers and haberdashers, the debits de tabac, the toyshops,and so forth, all abound in clients; but it is with the extremestrarity that I ever discern a person having the outward and visibleappearance of a customer in the grandest mayasins of the boule-vards. On the other hand, while purchasers are conspicuous by VOL. II. p. 6G PARIS HERSELF AGAIN. authority. their absence, you are generally fa-voured Avith a full view of what theItalians call La Bella le Patron may be awayspeculating at the Bourse, or quite aspossibly playing dominoes over his ab-sinthe or his bock at his favourite cafe;but Madame la Patronne fait sa caisse(balances her cashbook)—when did shetake any money ?—at her high desk ofIn front of the counter, a venerable dame, apparently
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