Smith, F. Berkeley (Frank Berkeley), b. 1869 · New York : Funk & Wagnalls · leaf 324
tain falls. All Paris poured into the Grands Boulevardson Mardi Gras. From the Madeleine to thePlace de la Bastille, this broad thoroughfarewas a compact surging sea of human beings.Those who had space enough danced, some asclowns, some as harlequins. There were womenin doublets and hose, in boys… … GREASE PAINT AND POWDER PUFFS 281 half the night. Paris seemed to have beenvisited by a vari-colored blizzard that roaredwhirling by, a February wind, over the heads ofthe sea of merry-makers. It piled itself in greatkaleidoscopic drifts in the gutters and got downthousands of peoples necks. The…
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