CHAPTER XV 121-128

Pretty Roumanian women--Adventitious aids to beauty--Paris toilets--Childish extravagances--Men with London tailors--A dandy in blue boots--Some quaint superstitions--Warding off the evil eye--The efficacy of hot coals and a cup of water--The Marțisoara, or March token--A wife’s indiscretion punished: story of poetic justice--The Marțisoara as a temperamental barometer.