The lorgnette Author:Donald Grant Mitchell 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: JAN. 30. NEW-YORK. NO. 2. Ce sont partout des sujets de satire, Kt comme spectateur, ne puis-je pas en rire 1 Ecole Des Femmes. Another we... more »ek has gone by, my dear Fritz, in which the town has been full of its Carnival festivities. Cheeks that were rosy in the opening of the winter, are losing, I see, a little of their vermilion; and the heavy velvet visites, in this spring-like season, are worn with a languid air. I little thought, in penning my last, that its revelations would betray me; you can judge then of my surprise in being accosted, only two days after its appearance, with the brusque salutation, " Allons done, mon cher Timon /" It seems that my portraits of the tasteful gentleman and the girls, had been recognized by an acquaintance who sometimes passes an evening at my chambers, over a quiet cigar and a brandy toddy. I have cautioned him, however, against any revelations, and shall now feel myself at liberty to avail myself of his suggestions. He is more of a cynic than myself; and indeed, he is so harsh at times, that I shall feel bound to temper his youthful extravagances, by the coolness and sobriety of my superior years. This acquaintance, whom I shall call at his own suggestion, Tophanes, being an abbreviation of the old Greek Aristophanes, is a shrewd observer of some eight-and-twenty, well made, of cheerful temperament, city-bred, and has been these four or five years living on the town—by which I mean, that with no ostensible employment, he has yet various occupations, and the best of all professions, for a town-liver—that of passing time agreeably. He may be frequently seen in an arm-chair, at the head of one of the tables in the reading-room of the Society Library; but I have observed, that while seeming to read, his eye is run...« less