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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PARIS. Some years ago, while in Paris, my.window fronted on the Boulevards. That street is an entertaining show. The throng pours incessantly along, exhaustless as a river, promiscuous as a world. On they move?far up, far down?all day, all night?fast and slow?crossing, turning, passing?interminable as a circle?a procession without a van, and without a rear. All classes and characters?infants and women; dotards and cripples, traders and travellers, rogues and Christians, mingled together, on foot, on horses, in vehicles?laughing, talking, dreaming; seeking pleasure, money, knowledge, mischief, fame. The policeman with blue uniform, white buttons, moustache, cocked hat, sword and the conscious air of office. Soldiers in different garbs, colored like the spirits in the play, marching in battalions, or strolling in couples, listless as children. Political aspirants, speculating on place and suffrage, on times and seasons. Legitimists, praying for the day which should crown the lineal Bourbon. Socialists, panting for the triumph of the blouses and the barricades. Orleanists, scheming to re-build the constitutional throne. Bonapartists, anticipating the restoration of the Empire. True Republicans, fearing, with good reason, that those liberty trees at the corners would bear no fruit, that their roots would wither,and their blossoms go up as dust. There is the flower girl with her gipsey hat and olive face, singing and selling her fragrant wares. There goes the Englishman, stout and ruddy from ale and beefsteak, with his guide book and umbrella, essential as his clothes. The American, all in black, with segar and cane?still vain of his own Republic. The German, with heavy brow and beard, perhaps a fugitive scholar from Bonn or Heidelberg. The Jew, still unfairly described as fait...
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