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"Le Monsieur De La Petite Dame", by
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Title: "Le Monsieur De La Petite Dame"
Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
Release Date: November 4, 2007 [EBook #23329]
Language: English
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"LE MONSIEUR DE LA PETITE DAME"
By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Copyright, 1877
It was Madame who first entered the box, and Madame was bright with youthful bloom, bright with jewels, and, moreover, a beauty. She was a little creature, with childishly large eyes, a low, white forehead, reddish-brown hair, and Greek nose and mouth.
"Clearly," remarked the old lady in the box opposite, "not a Frenchwoman. Her youth is too girlish, and she has too petulant an air of indifference."
This old lady in the box opposite was that venerable and somewhat severe aristocrat, Madame de Castro, and having gazed for a moment or so a little disapprovingly at the new arrival, she turned her glasses to the young beauty's companion and uttered an exclamation.
It was at Monsieur she was looking now. Monsieur had followed his wife closely, bearing her fan and bouquet and wrap, and had silently seated him self a little behind her and in the shadow.
"Ciel!" cried Madame de Castro, "what an ugly little man!"
It wa
''Le Monsieur De La Petite Dame''
by Frances Hodgson Burnett