Ce livre historique peut contenir de nombreuses coquilles et du texte manquant. Les acheteurs peuvent generalement telecharger une copie gratuite scannee du livre original (sans les coquilles) aupres de l'editeur. Non reference. Non illustre. 1899 edition. Extrait: ...gone he said: "Yes, I shall go to this ball, but not alone; I shall bring the Prince." "The Prince! To the Apprentices' ball?" That was all that I could say. The idea appeared perfectly insane. "The Apprentices' ball! You don't know what it is. In all the ...
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Ce livre historique peut contenir de nombreuses coquilles et du texte manquant. Les acheteurs peuvent generalement telecharger une copie gratuite scannee du livre original (sans les coquilles) aupres de l'editeur. Non reference. Non illustre. 1899 edition. Extrait: ...gone he said: "Yes, I shall go to this ball, but not alone; I shall bring the Prince." "The Prince! To the Apprentices' ball?" That was all that I could say. The idea appeared perfectly insane. "The Apprentices' ball! You don't know what it is. In all the rooms at the Mairie there are now busts with caps of liberty on their heads, and last year we danced a quadrille to patriotic airs such as the Marseillaise." "The Prince will dance to those airs, and he will never even see the liberty caps, he will be so busy looking at you; and when he has seen you in that gown, with those shoulders and those eyes, he will be ready to take you without a cent. I have just been talking with him at the club and he is quite cracked about you." "Well," I replied, laughing, "if he is as bad as all that, try to bring him to the ball to-morrow night." May 22A. He did bring him. I arrived at halfpast ten and the Prince was already there. My entrance caused a positive sensation. How delightful it is to feel oneself beautiful and to know that wherever one goes one produces an effect. How happy actresses must be when a round of applause greets them as they step on the stage. I felt a little like that on the evening of the ball. As I passed through the room I heard a hum of admiration behind me, and as soon as I was seated I was surrounded by the usual flock of engineers, all anxious to dance with me. They were soon dispersed, however, by Octave's bringing up the Prince to present to me. The evening before mamma had been nearly paralyzed by Octave's asking her for two tickets, one for himself and one for a friend, but she was positively thunderstruck to find that this friend was the man who had bought those two..."
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