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4 hesitate and look around a few days longer. In the meantime I shall run around and look "shabby like a beggar" as my husband expressed himself so emphatically this morning in the Louvre. He shall be surprised when I blossom out. - but what could he expect after wearing one coat continuously for nearly 8-9 months for overcoat, bathrobe, bed blanket and radiator. We haven't been in Paris long but we are "learning" it rapidly. The first evening we came we couldn't find a place to eat. We got in late, after eight, you see, and after walking the streets and reading the restaurant menu's and prices we decided that we were doomed to be sheared, so we finally marched into one to get it over with. We emerged later with two bowels of soup and two helpings of spinach in our stomachs and the equivalent of $1.80 lighter in our pockets. And this is dizzy Paris! Taxis are dirt cheap though. You can almost "do" the city for a quarter. That is if you can hold your breath that long and hang onto your teeth. We climbed the 275 steps to the Arch of Triumph yesterday and viewed the city from the heights. From this point the twelve streets radiate like the spokes of a wheel around a hub. This morning we walked miles through the Louvre and view some of the worlds famed
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4 hesitate and look around a few days longer. In the meantime I shall run around and look "shabby like a beggar" as my husband expressed himself so emphatically this morning in the Louvre. He shall be surprised when I blossom out. - but what could he expect after wearing one coat continuously for nearly 8-9 months for overcoat, bathrobe, bed blanket and radiator. We haven't been in Paris long but we are "learning" it rapidly. The first evening we came we couldn't find a place to eat. We got in late, after eight, you see, and after walking the streets and reading the restaurant menu's and prices we decided that we were doomed to be sheared, so we finally marched into one to get it over with. We emerged later with two bowels of soup and two helpings of spinach in our stomachs and the equivalent of $1.80 lighter in our pockets. And this is dizzy Paris! Taxis are dirt cheap though. You can almost "do" the city for a quarter. That is if you can hold your breath that long and hang onto your teeth. We climbed the 275 steps to the Arch of Triumph yesterday and viewed the city from the heights. From this point the twelve streets radiate like the spokes of a wheel around a hub. This morning we walked miles through the Louvre and view some of the worlds famed
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