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Title: Balloons

Author: Elizabeth Bibesco

Release Date: February 23, 2005 [EBook #15156]

Language: English

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BALLOONS

BY

ELIZABETH BIBESCO

_Author of "I Have Only Myself to Blame," etc._

NEW YORK

GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY

_1922_

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

CONTENTS

PAGE
I HAVEN 9
_To Clarence Day, Jr._

II TWO PARIS EPISODES 21
_To Anthony Asquith_
I: THE STORY OF A COAT
II: BALLOONS

III COURTSHIP 27

IV "DO YOU REMEMBER...?" 29
_To Leslie Hartley_

V THE MARTYR 37
_To H.G. Wells_

VI A MOTOR 53
_To Alice Longworth_

VII THE MASTERPIECE 60
_To Harold Child_

VIII TEA TIME 67
_To Sylvester Gates_

IX THE END 78

X MISUNDERSTOOD 83
_To John Maynard Keynes_

XI COUNTERPOINT 92
_To the Marchese Giovanni Visconti Venosta_

XII VILLEGIATURA 102
_To Marcel Proust_

XIII AULD LANG SYNE 132
_To Harold Nicolson_

XIV TWO TAXI DRIVES 147
_To Paul Morand_
I: SUNSHINE
II: LAMPS

XV A TOUCH OF SPRING 155
_To W.Y. Turner_

XVI FIDO AND PONTO 161

BALLOONS

I

HAVEN

[_To CLARENCE DAY, JR._]

"You shoul