Paris herself again in 1878-9 . velvet. If you peep into the shops you find them generally de-serted, save by the shopkeeper and his assistants. But those gen-tlemen know their own business perfectly well. Make your mindthoroughly easy on that point. They would not keep their shops. Iv the Rue de la Paix. IN THE RUE DE LA PAIX. 338 open so late and spend so much mone}T upon gas if the protrac-tion of their business-hours did not pay. Depend upon it thereis a well-ascertained average of Milords Anglais who have dinedwell, of Fabricants millionnaires du Lancashire, and Proprie-taires de mines de
Paris herself again in 1878-9 . velvet. If you peep into the shops you find them generally de-serted, save by the shopkeeper and his assistants. But those gen-tlemen know their own business perfectly well. Make your mindthoroughly easy on that point. They would not keep their shops. Iv the Rue de la Paix. IN THE RUE DE LA PAIX. 338 open so late and spend so much mone}T upon gas if the protrac-tion of their business-hours did not pay. Depend upon it thereis a well-ascertained average of Milords Anglais who have dinedwell, of Fabricants millionnaires du Lancashire, and Proprie-taires de mines de houille la-bas, and especially of British newly-married couples spending their honeymoon hi Paris, who saunterup and down the Rue de la Paix between eight and ten at night,and who stare at the jewelry until they become fascinated, evenas birds are said to be by the basilisks, and so enter the glitteringmagasins and buy largely. I am afraid that during this actualEaster the presence of English people willing to be nocturnallyfascinated in the Rue de la Paix has been considerably under theaverage, and that the enterprising jewellers have burned a largequantity of gas without any commensurate return in the way ofcustom. The weather has been so cold, so wet, and so generallymis
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