Chap.

 1        1|        night before. The Blonde Venus will be the event of the
 2        1|        star who’s going to play Venus, d’you know her?”~“There
 3        1|      time he was in search of a Venus. He—he never let a woman
 4        1|         first act of the Blonde Venus took place in Olympus, a
 5        1|        for the companionship of Venus. She sang it with a chaste
 6        1|     proffer a complaint against Venus, who was assuredly inflaming
 7        1|     stage were cloven apart and Venus appeared. Exceedingly tall,
 8        1|       up her grand ditty:~“When Venus roams at eventide.”~From
 9        1|         her second verse:~“’Tis Venus who at midnight passes—”~
10        1| exciting. Vulcan wanted to slap Venus. The gods held a consultation
11        1|     tender conversation between Venus and Mars and vowed that
12        1|       was forever running after Venus, who at last made her appearance
13        1|      hand on hip, she enthroned Venus in the gutter by the pavement
14        1|         ears. Diana, surprising Venus in the act of making an
15        1|         leave the way clear for Venus and Mars. Then scarcely
16        1|   scarcely was Diana alone than Venus made her appearance. A shiver
17        1|         fabric she wore. It was Venus rising from the waves with
18        1|       up to Vulcan, wheedled by Venus, whom the presence of her
19        1|         and directly afterward, Venus, sitting on a moss–clad
20        1|       and by an ingenious twist Venus and Mars were caught in
21        1|        opera glass was fixed on Venus. Little by little Nana had
22        1| reaction took place in favor of Venus. The chorus of cuckolds
23        1|         moral of the play. Then Venus was set at liberty, and
24        1|     sang a hymn of gratitude to Venus, who stood there with smiling
25        1|      walking off, humming:~When Venus roams at eventide.~Satin
26        3|        tres chic” of the Blonde Venus first night. This lady’s
27        4|         third act of the Blonde Venus.~“The play’s still far too
28        4|         so as to see the Blonde Venus when he comes to visit the
29        5|       performance of the Blonde Venus. The first act had just
30        5|         name, was getting ready Venus’ tights and tunic. Mme Jules
31        5|     army!” added Prulliere.~“To Venus!” cried Fontan.~The prince
32        5|        second act of the Blonde Venus.~“I say, shall we have our
33        5|   Highness!”~“To the army!”~“To Venus!”~But with that Nana made
34        5|         the loosened tresses of Venus flowed over his hands. But
35        5|         her drawers and slip on Venus’ tights. After which, with
36        5|         see any more. At length Venus, with only her gauze veil
37        5|         her heart and pinned up Venus’ tunic, but as she ran over
38        5|     audible. Every evening when Venus entered in her godlike nakedness
39        6|      following in the tracks of Venus—a Venus with the rouge scarce
40        6|        in the tracks of Venus—a Venus with the rouge scarce washed
41        6|    pretty success as the Blonde Venus. Which piece of news made
42        7|  suggested the torso of a plump Venus. She bent herself this way
43        8| expression of Vulcan crying for Venus. Straightway Prulliere became
44       11|         assumed her old pose as Venus Victrix.~But somebody touched
45       11|        an apotheosis, and Queen Venus was enthroned amid suddenly
46       12|        vulgar one in the Blonde Venus, with its laughing, blackguard
47       12|         the waltz in the Blonde Venus. Fauchery had begun by bowing
48       13|   assume on fine evenings, when Venus lights her fires on the
49       14|      downward in rippling gold. Venus was rotting. It seemed as