“Why do they toll, monsieur?... For Ninette?”
“A marriage, you say? Ah! thank you.”
“I’ll wager some Count will espouse for a dot.
“Come, Marie and Gaston, Pierre and Paulette, let us go to the wedding. Ten sous’ worth of wine. To the health of the bride!
“What say you, Harlequin, you who have known this Paris of Pleasure, this Paris of Leisure, this Paris of Fun? Is it true, my surmise?”
“Mon vieux,” cries Marie, “stop and think. Don’t you know why they’re ringing? Mimi La Belle is to marry the Duke!”
Charles Dana Gibson says: “It is like a trip to Paris.”
THE REAL LATIN QUARTER OF PARIS
By F. Berkeley Smith