. The real Latin quarter . g about theBal Bullier. It is all you expected it tobe, and more, too. Below you is a veritablewhirlpool of girls and students—a vast seaof heads, and a dazzling display of colorsand lights and animation. Little shrieksand screams fill your ears, as the orchestracrashes into the last page of a galop, quick-ening the pace until Yvonnes little feet slipand her cheeks glow, and her eyes growbright, and half her pretty golden hair getssmashed over her impudent little the galop is brought up with a quickfinish. Bis! Bis! Bis! Encore! comes fromevery quarter of t
. The real Latin quarter . g about theBal Bullier. It is all you expected it tobe, and more, too. Below you is a veritablewhirlpool of girls and students—a vast seaof heads, and a dazzling display of colorsand lights and animation. Little shrieksand screams fill your ears, as the orchestracrashes into the last page of a galop, quick-ening the pace until Yvonnes little feet slipand her cheeks glow, and her eyes growbright, and half her pretty golden hair getssmashed over her impudent little the galop is brought up with a quickfinish. Bis! Bis! Bis! Encore! comes fromevery quarter of the big room, and the con-ductor, with his traditional good-nature,begins again. He knows it is wiser tohumor them, and off they go again, stillfaster, until all are out of breath and rushinto the garden for a breath of cool air anda citron glace. And what a pretty garden it is!—full of beautiful trees and dotted with round iron tables, and laid out in white gravel walks, the garden sloping gently back to a fountain, 60. and a grotto and an artificialcascade all in one, with afigure of Venus in the cen-ter, over which the watersplashes and trickles. Thereis a green lattice proscenium,too, surrounding the foun-tain, illuminated with coloredlights and outlined in tiny flames of gas,and grotto-like alcoves circling the garden,each with a table and room for two. Theball-room from the garden presents a bril-liant contrast, as one looks down upon itfrom under the trees. But the orchestra has given its signal—ashort bugle call announcing a quadrille;and those in the garden are running downinto the ball-room to hunt up their partners. The Bullier orchestra will interest you ;they play with a snap and fire and a tempothat is irresistible. They have played to-gether so long that they have become knownas the best of all the bal orchestras. The leader, too, is interesting—tall andgaunt, with wild, deep-sunken eyes resem-bling those of an old eagle. Now and then 61
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