A Parisian Romance — page 51: what you’re looking at

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42 A PARISIAN ROMANCE, CHAPTER III. I1HE DE TARGYS BALL. The apartment, aw premier, No. 67 Avenue de I’ Alma, near the Arc de Triomphe, was ablaze with light; carriage after carriage load of ladies in wonderfully concocted masses of satin, tulle, and lace, with their attendant cavaliers in black coats and white cravats, was deposited beneath the red and white striped awning stretched across the side- walk; bursts of music floated now and then down from the windows, and all was gayety and laughter. For, to-night, Monsieur and Madame Henri de Targy were giving a grand ball to celebrate their return to the world, after two years of mourning. The event was one of more than usual interest, moreover, as it was young Madame de Targy’s debut in Parisian society. Since her marriage, which had been solemnized very quietly about six months after the death of her husband’s father, she had lived in the country, seeing no society beyond the few families in the neighborhood, and Doctor Ches- nel, an old friend of the De Targys. At last, how- ever, the period of mourning was terminated, and, at the special request of Madame de Targy the Eomicbooks.¢o =}