About Paris . s ofleisure. The night before she wore a greasy ging-ham gown, with her hair plastered over her fore-head in oily flat curls, as a laundress or char-woman of Montmartre might wear them. Nowshe is fashionably dressed in black, with whitelace over it, and with a lace parasol, which sheswings from her finger in time to the music,while the other artists of the Ambassadcurs standfarther up the stage waiting their turn, or po-litely watch her from the front. The girl whochalked her face as Pierrot the evening beforefollows her in a blue boating-dress and a kick atthe end of it, which s
About Paris . s ofleisure. The night before she wore a greasy ging-ham gown, with her hair plastered over her fore-head in oily flat curls, as a laundress or char-woman of Montmartre might wear them. Nowshe is fashionably dressed in black, with whitelace over it, and with a lace parasol, which sheswings from her finger in time to the music,while the other artists of the Ambassadcurs standfarther up the stage waiting their turn, or po-litely watch her from the front. The girl whochalked her face as Pierrot the evening beforefollows her in a blue boating-dress and a kick atthe end of it, which she means to introduce laterin the same day ; and the others comment audi-bly on it from their seats, calling her by her firstname, and disagreeing with the leader of the or-chestra as to the particular note upon which thekick should come, while he turns in his seat withhis violin on his knee and argues it out withthem, shrugging his shoulders, and making passesin the air with his lighted cigarette as though it. THE STREETS OF PARIS 39 were a baton. Two gendarmes, with their capesfolded and thrown over their shoulders, come inand stand with the waiters, surveying the re-hearsal with critical disapproval, and the womanwho collects the pennies for the iron seats in theavenue takes a few moments recess, and bringswith her two nurse-maids, with their neglectedcharges swinging by the silkxn straps aroundtheir silken bodies. And so they all stand atone side and gaze with large eyes at the breath-less, laughing young woman on the stage abovethem, who runs and kicks and runs back andkicks again, reflected many times in the back-ground of mirrors around her ; and then the twoAmerican song-and-dance men, and the Englishacrobats, and the Italian who owns the perform-ing dogs, and the smooth-faced French come-diennes, and all the idle gentlemen with glassesof bock before them, sit up as though some onehad touched their shoulders with a whip, and allthe actresses smile politely, and look wit
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