A Parisian Romance — page 58: what you’re looking at

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A PARISIAN ROMANCE. 49 the majority of people will listen to you and accept as truth what you say, and he carried this belief into all the actions of his life. But he found now, as he had on more than one previous occasion, the baron an exception to the majority. “A hundred thousand francs in the throat—bah '” was Chevrial’s comprehensive comment. “TI assure you, baron, that she sings very well,” replied Vaumartin. “She is a great artist.” The baron smiled in pitying disdain. “Yes, in a drawing-room,” he said, sweetly. “I have no doubt of it. It is like society amateurs playing a comedy; in private, it is charming, but, on the stage of a theater, it would be something quite different.” “Yes, indeed, baron, that is true,” remarked Laubanere, who was always only too ready to agree with the man of success. But Vaumartin was too self-opinionated to re- ‘linquish the point, and besides he rarely had deal- ings on the Bourse. “T beg to differ with you, gentlemen,” he per- sisted; “you can believe me or not, as you like, but, no later than night before last I heard, in a parlor, some society people play one of De Musset’s pieces, and I assure you that those ladies and gentlemen, simple amateurs as they were, would not have been out of place——” “At the Theater-Francais, I suppose, dear boy,” (EOMNMIE MOO KS (E©@) a