Nine Short Essays

Nine Short Essays

Nine Short EssaysIt was in the time of the Second Empire. To be exact, it was the...
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Author: Warner, Charles Dudley,1829-1900
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Nine Short Essays

Nine Short Essays

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Nine Short Essays

$17.63 $8.81
Author: Warner, Charles Dudley,1829-1900
Format: eBook
Language: English

Nine Short Essays

It was in the time of the Second Empire. To be exact, it was the night of the 18th of June, 1868; I remember the date, because, contrary to the astronomical theory of short nights at this season, this was the longest night I ever saw. It was the loveliest time of the year in Paris, when one was tempted to lounge all day in the gardens and to give to sleep none of the balmy nights in this gay capital, where the night was illuminated like the day, and some new pleasure or delight always led along the sparkling hours. Any day the Garden of the Tuileries was a microcosm repaying study. There idle Paris sunned itself; through it the promenaders flowed from the Rue de Rivoli gate by the palace to the entrance on the Place de la Concorde, out to the Champs-Elysees and back again; here in the north grove gathered thousands to hear the regimental band in the afternoon; children chased butterflies about the flower-beds and amid the tubs of orange-trees; travelers, guide-book in hand, stood resolutely and incredulously before the groups of statuary, wondering what that Infant was doing with, the snakes and why the recumbent figure of the Nile should have so many children climbing over him; or watched the long facade of the palace hour after hour, in the hope of catching at some window the flutter of a royal robe; and swarthy, turbaned Zouaves, erect, lithe, insouciant, with the firm, springy step of the tiger, lounged along the allees. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 3108
Author: Warner, Charles Dudley
Release Date: Dec 5, 2004
Format: eBook
Language: English

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