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..................but why drag in Hall Caine?
Come, Chaloner, confess like a good feller
By “Gentleman and litterateur” you meant
The literary style of the Best Seller
And the strictly pure refinement of the Gent.
[THE WOMEN OF THE BETTER CLASS]
“The artists and writers were the first Americans to make themselves at home in this amusing Parisian resort. (The Old Café Martin.) And it was here, too, that women of the better class first tasted the delights of café life. It was considered quite a daring thing in the late eighties for be-cloaked and be-diamonded women of Fifth Avenue to sit here and sip their after-dinner coffee.”