Paris herself again in 1878-9 . The salons and the ateliers of the Theodorics, of the Clo-rindes, the Hermiones, the Eudoxies, and the Naomis, are inthe first and second floors of houses in the Rue de la Paix or in thePlace de 1Opera—mysterious salons to which formal introductionis imperatively necessary, and where tick assumes proportionsinscrutable to the vulgar. It is in the Rue de la Paix where the 328 TARIS HERSELF AGAIN, veritable Temple of Fashion is situate, the sanctum sanctorum offeminine frivolity, over the more than Eleusinian mysteries ofwhich the great Worth presides in person. T
Paris herself again in 1878-9 . The salons and the ateliers of the Theodorics, of the Clo-rindes, the Hermiones, the Eudoxies, and the Naomis, are inthe first and second floors of houses in the Rue de la Paix or in thePlace de 1Opera—mysterious salons to which formal introductionis imperatively necessary, and where tick assumes proportionsinscrutable to the vulgar. It is in the Rue de la Paix where the 328 TARIS HERSELF AGAIN, veritable Temple of Fashion is situate, the sanctum sanctorum offeminine frivolity, over the more than Eleusinian mysteries ofwhich the great Worth presides in person. The masculine eye has cri . -T3. no more chance of penetrating its arcana than those of the wor-ship of the Bona Dea ; yet reports have from time to time reachedme that the hierophant combines the suavity of a Granville, the IN THE RUE DE LA PAIX. 329 diplomatic address of a Metternich, the firmness of a Wellington,and the prompt coup cVoeil of a Napoleon; and that before him prin-cesses discrown themselves, duchesses tremble, countesses bowtheir aristocratic heads in mute acquiescence, and citizenesses of
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