A Colored Man Round the World
n departed from Paris I had two lady visitors. One was a beautiful girl, like "Mary of Adelphi." She was evidently mistaken in finding a tenant in this one
, muttered out something like "reste vous tranquilles," which, I afterwards learned, meant, don't be disturbed. She hurried out the half opened door pulling her little starched dress, that seem
o improvement; all I knew of the book was, that the words translated were only some useful words that the solicitors would most likely know themselves when it would be necessary to use such expressions. She ran to me, for she was acquainted with the book better than I was, and helped to find what she wished to say. "Ie trouver, Ie trouver," she said. I gave her the book, at the same time asking her in English what was trouver. She looked up at the wall, like a Madonn
princess. From merely gossip authority, I learned that she was the wife of a great man in one of the Russio Turko principalities. She was generally dressed in black, and had two servants and a lacquey de place. She was handsome and that had ruined her. She was getting from her husband 100,000 per annum to stay away from him and his court, which seemed to meet her approbation. She roomed on the same floor I did, and I frequently met her smiling in these narrow and dark passage ways. She seldom dined at the "table de hote," (dinner table) but either at the trois frere, (three brothers) or the maison d'or Doree, corner of the Boulevard and rue Lafitte. She most always had her Cabinet, good dinners and various wines, consequently
ame on and I went to my room to prepare to see a "Night in Paris." I shall write of a Night in Paris, and then shall say no more of Paris until I have been to Ger
d having the pleasure of answering some inquiries of hers
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