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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: The Girl of the Period and Other Social Essays, Vol. II (of 2) - -Author: Eliza Lynn Linton - -Release Date: December 30, 2012 [EBook #41736] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GIRL OF THE PERIOD, VOL II *** - - - - -Produced by Clarity, Mary Akers and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive/American Libraries.) - - - - - - -</pre> - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 41736 ***</div> <p><a id="Page_i"></a></p> @@ -277,7 +238,7 @@ AND PARLIAMENT STREET</p> </tr> <tr> - <td class="tdl">DÉSŒUVREMENT</td> + <td class="tdl">DÉSŒUVREMENT</td> <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_55">55</a></td> </tr> @@ -434,7 +395,7 @@ AND PARLIAMENT STREET</p> </tr> <tr> - <td class="tdl">LOCAL FÊTES</td> + <td class="tdl">LOCAL FÊTES</td> <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_327">327</a></td> </tr> </table> @@ -768,7 +729,7 @@ and sometimes she has a cynical contempt for men and beauty and pleasure and dress, when she will make herself ridiculous by her revolt against all the canons of good taste and conventionality. But after -her <i>début</i> in tattered garments of severe colours and +her <i>début</i> in tattered garments of severe colours and ungainly cut, she will probably end her days as a frantic Fashionable, the salvation of whose soul depends on the faultless propriety of her wardrobe. @@ -1455,7 +1416,7 @@ of care and protection for herself—she, simpering and giggling as if she were fifteen, is by no means an old lady of the finest type. But she is better than the leering old lady who says coarse things, and who, -like Béranger's immortal creation, passes her time in +like Béranger's immortal creation, passes her time in regretting her plump arms and her well-turned ankle and the lost time that can never be recalled, and who is altogether a most unedifying old person and by no @@ -1799,7 +1760,7 @@ for the most part, and eminently unsympathetic; a nervous, irritable voice, that seems more fit for complaint than for love-making; and yet how laughing, how bewitching it can make itself!—never with the -Italian roundness, but <i>câlinante</i> in its own half-pettish +Italian roundness, but <i>câlinante</i> in its own half-pettish way, provoking, enticing, arousing. There are some voices which send you to sleep and others which stir you up; and the French voice is of the latter kind @@ -1888,7 +1849,7 @@ have been blazed abroad more than once by trusted friends, makes yet another and another safe confidant—quite safe this time; one of whose fidelity there is no doubt—and learns when too late that one <i>panier -percé</i> is very like another <i>panier percé</i>. The speculating +percé</i> is very like another <i>panier percé</i>. The speculating man, without business faculty or knowledge, who has burnt his fingers bare to the bone with handling scrip and stock, thrusts them into the fire @@ -2098,23 +2059,23 @@ the most dignified to which a man can devote himself.</p> <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">55</a></span></p> -<h2><i>DÉSŒUVREMENT.</i></h2> +<h2><i>DÉSŒUVREMENT.</i></h2> <p>Perhaps we ought to apologize for using a foreign label, but there is no one English word which gives -the full meaning of <i>désœuvrement</i>. Only paraphrases +the full meaning of <i>désœuvrement</i>. Only paraphrases and accumulations would convey the many subtle shades contained in it; and paraphrases and accumulations are inconvenient as headings. But if we have not the word, we have a great deal of the thing; for -<i>désœuvrement</i> is an evil unfortunately not confined to +<i>désœuvrement</i> is an evil unfortunately not confined to one country nor to one class; and even we, with all our boasted Anglo-Saxon energy, have people among us as unoccupied and purposeless as are to be found elsewhere. Certainly we have nothing like the Neapolitan lazzaroni who pass their lives in dozing in the sun; but that is more because of our climate -than our condition, and if our <i>désœuvrés</i> do not doze +than our condition, and if our <i>désœuvrés</i> do not doze out of doors, it by no means follows that they are wide awake within.</p> @@ -2143,7 +2104,7 @@ and were it not for the energy which makes work by its own force, the world would still be lying in barbarism, content with the skins of beasts for clothing and with wild fruits and roots for food. But the -<i>désœuvrés</i> know nothing of the pleasures of energy; +<i>désœuvrés</i> know nothing of the pleasures of energy; consequently none of the luxuries of idleness—only its tedium and monotony. Life is a dull round to them of alternate vacancy and mechanical routine; @@ -2165,7 +2126,7 @@ with so little of the activity which characterizes manhood as to rest content without some kind of object for his life, either in work or in pleasure, in study or in vice. But many women are satisfied to remain in -an unending <i>désœuvrement</i>, a listless supineness that +an unending <i>désœuvrement</i>, a listless supineness that has not even sufficient active energy to fret at its own dullness.</p> @@ -2174,7 +2135,7 @@ of the poorer class of gentry in the country. If we except the Sunday school and district visiting, neither of which commends itself as a pleasant occupation to all minds—both in fact needing a little more active -energy than we find in the purely <i>désœuvré</i> class—what +energy than we find in the purely <i>désœuvré</i> class—what is there for the unmarried daughters of a family to do? There is no question of a profession for any of them. Ideas travel slowly in country places, and @@ -2198,7 +2159,7 @@ in reading parties; the group of Bohemian artists, if the place be picturesque and not too far from London; the curate; and the new doctor, fresh from the hospitals, who has to make his practice out of the poorer -and more outlying <i>clientèle</i> of the old and established +and more outlying <i>clientèle</i> of the old and established practitioners of the place. But collegians do not marry, and long engagements are proverbially hazardous; Bohemian artists are even less likely than they to @@ -2249,7 +2210,7 @@ they would fain accept as living creatures if they give themselves the trouble to evoke anything at all, and they don't give themselves the trouble. They simply live on from day to day in a state of mental -somnolency—hopeless, <i>désœuvrées</i>, inactive; just drifting +somnolency—hopeless, <i>désœuvrées</i>, inactive; just drifting down the smooth slow current of time, with not a ripple nor an eddy by the way.</p> @@ -2257,7 +2218,7 @@ a ripple nor an eddy by the way.</p> Quiet families in towns, people who keep no society and live in a self-made desert apart though in the midst of the very vortex of life, are alike in the -matter of <i>désœuvrement</i>; and we find exactly the +matter of <i>désœuvrement</i>; and we find exactly the same history with them as we find with their country cousins, though apparently their circumstances are so different. They cannot work and they may not @@ -2267,7 +2228,7 @@ of spectators lining the streets and windows on a show day, and this but seldom; or to go once or twice a year to the theatre or a concert. So they too just lounge through their life, and pass from -girlhood to old age in utter <i>désœuvrement</i> and want +girlhood to old age in utter <i>désœuvrement</i> and want of object. Year by year the lines about their eyes deepen, their smile gets sadder, their cheeks grow paler; while the cherished secret romance which even @@ -2276,7 +2237,7 @@ and a firmness of outline by continual dwelling on, which it had not in the beginning. Perhaps it was a dream built on a tone, a look, a word—may be it was only a half-evolved fancy without any basis whatever—but -the imagination of the poor <i>désœuvrée</i> has +the imagination of the poor <i>désœuvrée</i> has clung to the dream, and the uninteresting dullness of her life has given it a mock vitality which real activity would have destroyed.</p> @@ -2287,12 +2248,12 @@ to call constancy and an enduring regret; and we find it as absolutely as that heat follows from flame, <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">61</a></span> that the mischievous habit of bewailing an irrevocable -past is part of the <i>désœuvrée</i> condition in the present. +past is part of the <i>désœuvrée</i> condition in the present. People who have real work to do cannot find time -for unhealthy regrets, and <i>désœuvrement</i> is the most +for unhealthy regrets, and <i>désœuvrement</i> is the most fertile source of sentimentality to be found.</p> -<p>The <i>désœuvrée</i> woman of means and middle age, +<p>The <i>désœuvrée</i> woman of means and middle age, grown grey in her want of purpose and suddenly taken out of her accustomed groove, is perhaps more at sea than any others. She has been so long accustomed @@ -2309,7 +2270,7 @@ which darkens the remainder of her life without destroying it. She loses even her power of enjoyment, and gets tired before the end of the rubber which is the sole amusement in which she indulges. -For <i>désœuvrement</i> has that fatal reflex action which +For <i>désœuvrement</i> has that fatal reflex action which everything bad possesses, and its strength is in exact ratio with its duration.</p> @@ -2317,7 +2278,7 @@ ratio with its duration.</p> stronger and more energetic. Many even of those who seem to do pretty well as independent workers, men and women alike, would be all the better for -being farmed out; and <i>désœuvrées</i> women especially +being farmed out; and <i>désœuvrées</i> women especially <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">62</a></span> want extraneous guidance, and to be set to such work as they can do, but cannot make. An establishment @@ -2330,7 +2291,7 @@ does not recognize the existence of moral rickets, though the physical are cared for; consequently it has not begun to provide for them as moral rickets, and no Proudhon has yet managed to utilize the -<i>désœuvrés</i> members of the State. When they do +<i>désœuvrés</i> members of the State. When they do find a place of retreat and adventitious support, it is under another name.</p> @@ -2359,7 +2320,7 @@ of hours, and go to bed as the clock strikes ten.</p> which has been the golden vision of hope to many a man during the heat and burden of the day. The dream is only a dream. Retirement means -<i>désœuvrement</i>; leisure is tedium; rest is want of occupation +<i>désœuvrement</i>; leisure is tedium; rest is want of occupation truly, but want of interest, want of object, want of purpose as well; and the prosperous man of business, who has retired with a fortune and broken @@ -2369,7 +2330,7 @@ to business and something to do. He wonders, on retrospection, what there was in his activity that was distasteful to him; and thinks with regret that perhaps, on the whole, it is better to wear out than -to rust out; that <i>désœuvrement</i> is a worse state than +to rust out; that <i>désœuvrement</i> is a worse state than work at high pressure; and that life with a purpose is a nobler thing than one which has nothing in it but idleness:—whereof the main object is how @@ -2669,7 +2630,7 @@ measures. If a woman, she is probably a superior being subjected to domestic martyrdom while intended by nature for a higher intellectual life,—doomed to the drudgery of housekeeping while -yearning for the æsthetic and panting after the ideal. +yearning for the æsthetic and panting after the ideal. She is generally dignified in her bearing and of a cold, unappeasable discontent. She neither scolds nor wrangles, though sometimes, no rule being without @@ -3204,7 +3165,7 @@ and burns itself out by its own energy of expression; and how fierce soever their aspect when they ruffle their feathers and make believe to fight, one vigorous peck from their opponent proves their anatomy as -that of a creature without vertebræ, pulpy, gristly, +that of a creature without vertebræ, pulpy, gristly, gelatinous, and limp. All things have their uses and good issues; but what portion of the general good the limp are designed to subserve is one of @@ -3246,7 +3207,7 @@ be able to talk, and yet not tell. Silence indeed, self-evident and without disguise, though a safe method, is but a clumsy one, and to be tolerated only in very timid or very young people. "Le silence est le parti -plus sûr pour celui qui se défie de soi-même," says +plus sûr pour celui qui se défie de soi-même," says Rochefoucauld. So is total abstinence for him who cannot control himself. Yet we do not preach total abstinence as the best order of life for a wise and @@ -3434,7 +3395,7 @@ their most intimate friends as if they would one day become their enemies, and never let even their <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_98" id="Page_98">98</a></span> deepest affections strike root so far down as confidence. -They rearrange La Bruyère's famous +They rearrange La Bruyère's famous maxim, 'L'on peut avoir la confiance de quelqu'un sans en avoir le cœur,' and take it quite the contrary way; but perhaps the heart which gives itself, @@ -3664,7 +3625,7 @@ that reaches almost the dimensions of a science. And it is just that in which your very intense, your very earnest and sincere, women are utter failures. They know nothing of badinage, but take everything -<i>au grand sérieux</i>; and when you mean to be simply +<i>au grand sérieux</i>; and when you mean to be simply playful and complimentary, imagine you in tragic earnest, and think themselves obliged to frown down a compliment as a liberty; or else they accept it with @@ -3787,7 +3748,7 @@ when she submits to the stronger. To bear in silence and to act with vigour; to come to the front on some occasions, to efface herself on others, are alike the characteristics of true womanliness; as is also the -power to be at once practical and æsthetic, the careful +power to be at once practical and æsthetic, the careful worker-out of minute details and the upholder of a sublime idealism—the house-mistress dispensing bread and the priestess serving in the temple. In fact, it @@ -3993,7 +3954,7 @@ thinks a populous and happy nursery one of the greatest blessings of her state; and she puts her pride in the perfect ordering, the exquisite arrangements, the comfort, thoughtfulness and beauty of -her house. She is not above her <i>métier</i> as a woman; +her house. She is not above her <i>métier</i> as a woman; and she does not want to ape the manliness she can never possess.</p> @@ -4072,7 +4033,7 @@ The animal has thus the pleasure of mauling something which seems to suffer from the process; while in reality it hurts nothing, but expends its tormenting energy on a quite unfeeling creature, whose -<i>raison d'être</i> it is to be worried and made to squeak. +<i>raison d'être</i> it is to be worried and made to squeak. It would be well for some of us if those people who must have something to worry would be content with a creature analogous to the lapdog's india-rubber @@ -4145,7 +4106,7 @@ save both trouble and expense.</p> If they have once found a victim they keep him; crueller in this than cats and tigers which play with their prey only for a time, but finally give the <i>coup -de grâce</i> and devour it, bones and all. But worrying +de grâce</i> and devour it, bones and all. But worrying folk never have done with their prey, be it person or thing, and have an art of persistence—a way of establishing a raw—that drives their poor victims @@ -4318,7 +4279,7 @@ often the beginning of a set of troubles which none among them expect, and which, when they come, very few accept with the dignity of patience or the reasonableness of common sense. Hitherto the man -has been the suitor, the wooer. It has been his <i>métier</i> +has been the suitor, the wooer. It has been his <i>métier</i> to make love; to utter extravagant professions; to talk poetry and romance of an eminently unwearable kind; and to swear that feelings, which by the very @@ -4586,7 +4547,7 @@ always moving about and are to be met everywhere; at all sea-side places; at all show places; in Switzerland, France, Italy and Germany; where they live chiefly in <i>pensions</i> at moderate charges, or in meagre -lodgings affiliated to a populous <i>table d'hôte</i> much +lodgings affiliated to a populous <i>table d'hôte</i> much frequented by the English. For one characteristic of social nomads is the strange way in which they congregate together, expatiating on the delights of life @@ -4763,7 +4724,7 @@ any Act of Parliament to help.</p> <p>Sometimes the lady nomad is a spinster, not <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_142" id="Page_142">142</a></span> -necessarily <i>passée</i>, though obviously she cannot be in +necessarily <i>passée</i>, though obviously she cannot be in her first youth; still she may be young enough to be attractive, and adventurous enough to care to attract. Women of this kind, unmarried, nomadic @@ -5119,7 +5080,7 @@ the uncomfortable property of looking at the least half a dozen years older than they are. This accounts for the phenomenon of a girlish matron of this kind, dressed to represent first youth, with a sturdy black-browed -débutante by her side, looking, you would +débutante by her side, looking, you would swear to it, of full majority if a day. Her only chance is to get that black-browed tell-tale married out of hand; and this is the reason why so many @@ -5597,7 +5558,7 @@ evening, and they tell you they will come, uninvited; taking for granted that you intended to ask them, <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_170" id="Page_170">170</a></span> and would have been sorry if you had forgotten. -They tack themselves on to your party at a fête and +They tack themselves on to your party at a fête and air their privileges in public—when the man whom of all others you would like best for a son-in-law is hovering about, kept at bay by the privileged person's @@ -5669,7 +5630,7 @@ How can you do otherwise with that charming face looking so sweetly into yours, and the coquettish little hypocrisies played off for your benefit? If that charming face were old or ugly, things would be -different; but so long as women possess <i>la beauté +different; but so long as women possess <i>la beauté du diable</i> men can do nothing but treat them as angels.</p> @@ -6973,7 +6934,7 @@ of ordinary times. Her friends drop in, sure <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_215" id="Page_215">215</a></span> to find her at home and pleased by their coming; and her afternoon teas with her half-dozen chosen -intimates have a character of their own, æsthetic and +intimates have a character of their own, æsthetic and delightful; partly owing to the quiet and subdued tone that must perforce pervade them, partly to the unselfishness that reigns on all sides. Every one @@ -7495,7 +7456,7 @@ and her music worth as much in its degree as if she were a prima donna, each of whose notes ranked as gold. So that when she ceases to be young, when she loses her high notes and has gout in her fingers, -she fails in her only <i>raison d'être</i>, and her occupation +she fails in her only <i>raison d'être</i>, and her occupation is gone. Hence her hard struggles with the old enemy, and her half-heroic, half-tragic determination <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_233" id="Page_233">233</a></span> @@ -7800,7 +7761,7 @@ type is a creature given over as a prey to nervous fancies and an exalted imagination, of a feverish temperament and a general obscuration of plain morality in favour of a subtilizing and misleading kind of -thing which she calls her <i>besoin d'âme</i>, we may be +thing which she calls her <i>besoin d'âme</i>, we may be sure that this is the type most approved by both writer and readers, and that anything else would be unwelcome.</p> @@ -7813,9 +7774,9 @@ husband, rationally fond of her children, not given to dangerous musings about the need of her soul for an elective affinity outside her marriage bond, nor spending her hours in speculating on the philosophy of -necessity as represented by Léon or Alphonse; who +necessity as represented by Léon or Alphonse; who should make her absolutely impervious to the sickly -sentimentalism of the inevitable <i>célibat</i>, and neither +sentimentalism of the inevitable <i>célibat</i>, and neither palter with peril nor lament that sin should be sinful when it is so pleasant; who should paint domestic morality as we know it exists in France no less than @@ -7970,7 +7931,7 @@ his private manners. But this is only with recognized and fully successful heroes. As a rule, no amount of manly virtues will excuse the want of the softer graces; and the finest fellow that ever lived, the true -<i>anax andrôn</i> among men, must be content to be measured +<i>anax andrôn</i> among men, must be content to be measured by women merely according to his own estimate of them, and the power which the passion of love has over him.</p> @@ -8085,7 +8046,7 @@ but it is the hands of Esau and the voice of Jacob. Instead of the silent waiting for one's turn, with the quiet acceptance of fate in the shape of the butler and his underlings, that belongs to a private dinner-table, -here, at the <i>table d'hôte</i>, there is an incessant call for +here, at the <i>table d'hôte</i>, there is an incessant call for this or that out of time; an angry demand to be served sooner or better than one's neighbours; a greedy 'taking care of number one' at the head of @@ -8149,7 +8110,7 @@ signs of progressive heating, or the process of cooling off. Sometimes it is a more questionable matter; the indiscreet behaviour of a young wife, unprotected by her husband, who takes up furiously with some -stranger met at the <i>table d'hôte</i> by chance, and of +stranger met at the <i>table d'hôte</i> by chance, and of whose character or antecedents she is utterly ignorant. This is the kind of things that sets the whole hotel by the ears. Prim women ask severely, 'How long @@ -8262,7 +8223,7 @@ it sometimes happens that it is diamond cut diamond, which is a not unrighteous retribution.</p> <p>For the most part the people haunting hotels and -living at <i>tables d'hôte</i> are not specially charming, but +living at <i>tables d'hôte</i> are not specially charming, but among them may sometimes be met men and women of broad views and liberal minds, cultivated and thoughtful, whose association time ripens into friendship. @@ -8288,7 +8249,7 @@ people of whom no one knows anything and every one suspects all. Among the <i>oi polloi</i> of hotel life the really nice people shine conspicuous: and more than one pleasant friendship which has lasted for life -has been begun over the soup and fish of a <i>table d'hôte</i>.</p> +has been begun over the soup and fish of a <i>table d'hôte</i>.</p> <hr class="c15" /> @@ -8358,7 +8319,7 @@ conventional graces of manner which have come to be part of the religion of society, contradicting point-blank, softening no refusal with the expression of a regret they do not feel, yawning in the face of the -bore, admiring with the <i>naïveté</i> of a savage whatever +bore, admiring with the <i>naïveté</i> of a savage whatever is new to them or pleasing. Such women are not agreeable companions, however devoid of affectation they may be, however stanch adherents to truth @@ -8644,7 +8605,7 @@ followed home, turning into a fretful, self-indulgent fine lady, flung wearily into an easy chair, sending the children up to the nursery and probably seeing them no more until Park hour to-morrow, when -their beautiful little <i>têtes d'ange</i> will enhance her own +their beautiful little <i>têtes d'ange</i> will enhance her own loveliness in the eyes of men, and make her more beautiful because making the picture more complete; Mrs. Jellaby given up to universal philanthropy, @@ -8676,7 +8637,7 @@ them too clearly for their dreams to be ever possible again. They have a favourite author—a poet, say, or a novelist. If a poet, he is probably one whose songs are full of that delicious melancholy which -makes them so divinely sad; an æsthetic poet; a +makes them so divinely sad; an æsthetic poet; a blighted being; a creature walking in the moonlight among the graves and watering their flowers with his tears:—if a novelist, he is one whose sprightly fancy @@ -9427,7 +9388,7 @@ safe than intellectually learned.</p> private application, would be rather difficult in dealing with a congregation not unfrequently made up of doubtful elements. Take that pretty young woman and -her handsome <i>roué</i>-looking husband, who have come +her handsome <i>roué</i>-looking husband, who have come no one knows whence and are no one knows what, but who attend the services with praiseworthy punctuality, spend any amount of money, and are being @@ -10130,7 +10091,7 @@ the fight is still going on. The truth is, the worst of either is so infinitely bad that there is nothing to choose between them; and the same is true, inversely, of the best. When things go well, the advocates of -the particular system involved sing their pæans, and +the particular system involved sing their pæans, and show how wise they were; when they go ill, the opponents howl their condemnation, and say: We told you so.</p> @@ -10267,7 +10228,7 @@ are inclined to be more lenient when the theory of instinctive love fails to work, and the individuality <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_324" id="Page_324">324</a></span> of the woman expresses itself in an after-preference; -always provided, of course, that the <i>bienséances</i> are +always provided, of course, that the <i>bienséances</i> are respected, and that no scandal is created.</p> <p>Among the conflicting rights and wrongs of the @@ -10360,10 +10321,10 @@ docile to the master who governs them.</p> <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_327" id="Page_327">327</a></span></p> -<h2><i>LOCAL FÊTES.</i></h2> +<h2><i>LOCAL FÊTES.</i></h2> <p>The efforts of country places in the matter of local -fêtes and shows are often beset with difficulties. The +fêtes and shows are often beset with difficulties. The great people, who have seen the best of everything in Paris and London, give their money sparsely and their energies with languor; or it may be that certain @@ -10378,7 +10339,7 @@ middle class, which in a small country neighbourhood is represented by the well-to-do tradesmen, the innkeepers, and the rival professionals. Once a year or so the desire fastens on these people to get up a -local fête—say a flower-show, or games, or both +local fête—say a flower-show, or games, or both combined—as an evidence of local vitality; a claim on the county newspaper for two or three columns of description with all the names in full flanked by a @@ -10433,7 +10394,7 @@ management consular decrees.</p> that the eyes of England are indeed turned hither-ward. If the great people are languid, the meaner folks are jocund, and the stewards are as proud as -the proudest ædiles of old Rome. Their knots of +the proudest ædiles of old Rome. Their knots of coloured ribbon make new men of them for the time, and justify the instinct which puts its trust in regalia. They are sure to be on the ground from the @@ -10482,7 +10443,7 @@ held the right thing to do to give to those who can afford to pay, trusting to the pence of the multitude <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_331" id="Page_331">331</a></span> for the rest. Nevertheless these great creatures -regard their presence there as a <i>corvée</i> which they +regard their presence there as a <i>corvée</i> which they must fulfil, but at the least cost possible to themselves; so they make up parties to meet at a certain time, and endure the stewards, who talk fine and are @@ -10497,7 +10458,7 @@ When the gardener of a neighbouring lord exhibits a good specimen from his choicest plants, not for competition but as a model for imitation, their enthusiasm knows no bounds; and a fine alamanda -or a richly-coloured dracæna receives almost divine +or a richly-coloured dracæna receives almost divine honours. As a rule, the flowers in these local shows are poor enough; but the fruit is often good and the vegetables are magnificent. The highest efforts of @@ -10517,7 +10478,7 @@ gentlefolks apart, and to the cottagers by themselves. In which case they fulfil the Scriptures literally, and give most to those who already have most.</p> -<p>All the local oddities are sure to be at these fêtes. +<p>All the local oddities are sure to be at these fêtes. There is the harmless imbecile, who wanders about the roads with a peacock's feather in his battered old cap, and who talks to himself when he cannot find @@ -10548,7 +10509,7 @@ too great importance in his estimate of things; and side by side with him is the self-made poet, whose verses are not always easy to scan and whose thoughts are apt to express themselves mistily. -These and more are sure to be at the fête bringing; +These and more are sure to be at the fête bringing; their peculiarities as their quota, and giving that indescribable but pleasant local flavour which is half the interest of the thing.</p> @@ -10588,12 +10549,12 @@ succeed as they should. But the gaping crowd is vociferous and good-natured, and holds the whole affair to have been splendid. There is a great deal of coarse jollity among the men and women over the -failures and successes alike, and if the fête is in the +failures and successes alike, and if the fête is in the North there is sure to be more drink afloat than is desirable. Headaches are the rule of the next morning, with perhaps some things lost which can never be regained. Yet, in spite of the inevitable abuses, these -local fêtes are things worthy of encouragement; and +local fêtes are things worthy of encouragement; and perhaps if the great people would enter into them more heartily, and remain on the ground longer, the lower orders would behave themselves better all through, @@ -10655,7 +10616,7 @@ A. Watts</span>. In 2 vols, crown 8vo.</p> <p class="center small"> VI.<br /> <span class="smcap">By</span> C. PHILLIPPS-WOLLEY.</p> -<p class="hang"><span class="large">SAVAGE SVÂNETIA; or, Travels in the Heart of the Caucasus.</span> By +<p class="hang"><span class="large">SAVAGE SVÂNETIA; or, Travels in the Heart of the Caucasus.</span> By <span class="smcap">Clive Phillipps-Wolley</span>, F.R.G.S., Author of 'Sport in the Crimea,' &c. In 2 vols, crown 8vo. With Fourteen Illustrations, engraved by <span class="smcap">George Pearson.</span></p> @@ -10764,7 +10725,7 @@ Sixteen fine Illustrations on Steel:—</p> <tr> <td> </td> - <td class="tdl">Werthmüller.</td> + <td class="tdl">Werthmüller.</td> <td>|</td> <td class="tdr">IX.</td> <td class="tdl">Portrait of</td> @@ -10781,7 +10742,7 @@ Sixteen fine Illustrations on Steel:—</p> <td class="tdl">Louis XVI.</td> <td>|</td> <td class="tdr">XIV.</td> - <td class="tdl">Compiègne.</td> + <td class="tdl">Compiègne.</td> </tr> <tr> @@ -10803,7 +10764,7 @@ Sixteen fine Illustrations on Steel:—</p> <td class="tdl">Louis XVII.</td> <td>|</td> <td class="tdr">XVI.</td> - <td class="tdl">Ecouën.</td> + <td class="tdl">Ecouën.</td> </tr> <tr> @@ -10846,7 +10807,7 @@ In 2 vols, crown 8vo.</p> XV.<br /> <span class="smcap">By</span> PRINCE METTERNICH.</p> <p class="hang"><span class="large">The AUTOBIOGRAPHY of PRINCE METTERNICH.</span> Edited by his -Son, <span class="smcap">Prince Metternich</span>. The Papers classified and arranged by <span class="smcap">M. A. de Klinkowström</span>. +Son, <span class="smcap">Prince Metternich</span>. The Papers classified and arranged by <span class="smcap">M. A. de Klinkowström</span>. The Sixth and Concluding Volume. In demy 8vo.</p> <p class="center small"> @@ -10881,7 +10842,7 @@ XIX.<br /> Duncker</span>, by <span class="smcap">S. F. Alleyne</span>. In demy 8vo. (Uniform in size with 'The History of Antiquity.')</p> <p>Professor <span class="smcap">Duncker's</span> History of Greece gives an account of Hellas and its civilisation from the -earliest times down to the overthrow of the Persians at Salamis and Platæa.</p> +earliest times down to the overthrow of the Persians at Salamis and Platæa.</p> <p><span class="smcap">Vol. I.</span>:—I. <span class="smcap">The Greeks in the Earliest Age.</span> II. <span class="smcap ">Their Conquest and Migrations.</span></p> </div> @@ -10911,383 +10872,6 @@ Minor spelling and punctuation inconsistencies, mainly hyphenated words, have be Any lacking page numbers are those given to blank pages in the original text. </p></div> - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Girl of the Period and Other -Social Essays, Vol. II (of 2), by Eliza Lynn Linton - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GIRL OF THE PERIOD, VOL II *** - -***** This file should be named 41736-h.htm or 41736-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/4/1/7/3/41736/ - -Produced by Clarity, Mary Akers and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive/American Libraries.) - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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