“He is rendering you a service. He is doing the preparatory work. He is turning the bill’s trousers down. This done you will be able to at once—”
He completed the phrase with the expressive gesture which consists of tapping the back of the fingers of the left hand with the fingers of the right hand.
LOUIS BONAPARTE.
I. HIS DEBUTS.
II. HIS ELEVATION TO THE PRESIDENCY.
III. THE FIRST OFFICIAL DINNER.
IV. THE FIRST MONTH.
V. FEELING HIS WAY.
I. HIS DEBUTS.
Upon his arrival in Paris Louis Bonaparte took up his residence in the Place Vendome. Mlle. Georges went to see him. They conversed at some length. In the course of the conversation Louis Bonaparte led Mlle. Georges to a window from which,the column with the statue of Napoleon I. upon it was visible and said:
“I gaze at that all day long.”
“It’s pretty high!” observed Mlle. George.