Chapter I

Text size

HUMOROUS MASTERPIECES, NO. 2

PICTURES BY GAVARNI

CARSON & NICOL, PRINTERS, GLASGOW.

[Heading: THE DECEITFULNESS OF WOMEN IN MATTERS OF SENTIMENT.]

“Then marry Henri.”]

PICTURES
BY
GAVARNI

GOWANS & GRAY, LTD.
35 LEICESTER SQUARE, LONDON, W.C.
58 CADOGAN STREET, GLASGOW
1906

_The following pictures are selected
from the two volumes of Gavarni’s
“Œuvres Choisies” published by Hetzel,
Paris, 1846-8. In choosing them the
publishers have been careful to exclude any
illustrations likely to
offend English taste
or too local in interest for the allusions
to be generally intelligible._

[Heading: THE DECEITFULNESS OF WOMEN IN MATTERS OF SENTIMENT]

“Because you always told me about Mr. Paul.”]

My Dear Amédée,

This evening, about eight o’clock, at the Boule Rouge, dressed as a
citizeness; be on the lookout, do not keep me waiting,
Your Clara.

My Beloved Henri,

Judge of my despair! I have a frightful sore throat, it will be
quite impossible for me to go out this evening. In fact, they are
thinking of applying twenty leeches!!! Pity much and love always
your

Clara.]

[Heading: THE DECEITFULNESS OF WOMEN IN MATTERS OF SENTIMENT]

_To the second gentleman._--“This evening, quai des Lunettes, between four and five o’clock.--Your Augustine.”

_To the third gentleman._--“Quai des Morfondus, this evening, from four o’clock to five.--Your Augustine.”

_To a fourth gentleman._--“I expect you this evening at four o’clock.--Your own Augustine.”]

[Heading: THE DECEITFULNESS OF WOMEN IN MATTERS OF SENTIMENT]

“Fortunately you have still got your Amédée.”]

[Heading: THE DECEITFULNESS OF WOMEN IN MATTERS OF SENTIMENT]

[Heading: CLICHY]

“What does that matter to you?”

“Why! (on Sundays, one does not care a rap for the bailiff) it matters this much, that I could go for a walk if I could get out.”]

[Heading: CLICHY]

“Ask the wild ducks how they get caught!... He drew on me on March 1st, and I was arrested on April 5th: that’s how it happened.”]

[Heading: CLICHY]

[Heading: PARIS BY NIGHT]

“Yes!”

“Do you know who he is?”

“Who?”

“Nobody at all.”]

[Heading: PARIS BY NIGHT]

“Baron Gros-Jean!...”]

[Heading: PARIS BY NIGHT]

“I begged at the dancing halls: I did not badly.”]

[Heading: PARIS BY NIGHT]

[Heading: TERRIBLE CHILDREN]

“Then give me them now and then go away.”]

[Heading: TERRIBLE CHILDREN]

“Oh, yes, aunt ... she is with the fat hair-woman.... You don’t know how long it takes to remove the stuff they put in aunt’s hair to make it black afterwards.”]

[Heading: TERRIBLE CHILDREN]

“Oh! you never bore me.”

“Yes, mamma, you said the other day he was a bore.”

“It is not true!... Mamma, George is telling lies again!... Mamma said he was stupid and a bore!... Now!”]

[Heading: LORETTES]

“That will be funny!”

“ ...All my friends are coming.”

“The place will be full.”]

[Heading: ACTRESSES]

_1st Criticism._--“It is impossible to exhibit more wit, more gaiety, more cleverness than does Madame Polydor in the part of Suzette; it is impossible to be more refined and elegant.”

_2nd Criticism._--“Decidedly, Madame Polydor shows herself more insignificant than ever in the part of Suzette.”

_3rd Criticism._--“Etc., etc., etc., etc.”]

[Heading: ACTRESSES]

“See: the waves of the inhuman sea have left nothing for us on the sand. The blighting wind of the desert has passed over the traveller’s tree, and its branch, alas! is withered.... Alas! my eyes have sought in vain the life-giving seeds in the odorous grass that the tempest has levelled, and in the abandoned nests of the young birds of the shore!... O, mother!... mother!... I hunger!”

“Well, here is your coffee, Titine.”]

[Heading: ACTRESSES]

“At last, then, you have come, oh monster, soiled with crime!”]

[Heading: ACTRESSES]

“Your proposal, Count, is of a nature likely to compromise gravely the interests of our faithful ally, England.... Nevertheless we shall consider it; but, whatever we resolve, we shall keep it secret from Russia; we give you, Count, our royal word.”]

[Heading: ACTRESSES]

[Heading: PARIS BY MORNING]

“Yes ... M’ame Chiffet!... you’re wanted.”]

[Heading: PARIS BY MORNING]

[Heading: THE STUDENTS OF PARIS]

“Husband and wife owe one another fidelity, succour, assistance.”]

[Heading: THE STUDENTS OF PARIS]

“Guess....”

“Thirty francs?”

“Four francs!”

“Good heavens!”]

[Heading: THE STUDENTS OF PARIS]

“On Sunday, cousin, we walk in a garden called the Grande-Chaumière, where we hear sacred music.”

“After church?”

“After church, cousin....”]

[Heading: THE STUDENTS OF PARIS]

“_That_ will be hard!”]

[Heading: THE STUDENTS OF PARIS]