Yet their fame is not therefore the more real, for everything connected with fashion becomes obsolete.

Her ear has a great susceptibility of weariness, and her eye rolls for incessant novelty.

Never was she earnest for anything.

Men's minds with her become tarnished and old-fashioned as furniture.

But the steams of rich dinners, the eye which sparkles with the wines of France, the luxurious night which flames with more heat and brilliancy than God has made the day, this is the world the man of coterie-celebrity has chosen; and the Epicurean, as long as his senses do not cease to act, laughs at the few who retire to the solitary midnight lamp.