parapluie

Imagine the parallel case of an invalid carrying a heavy modern carriage umbrella, and then you have some sort of an idea of the tax Hanway’s parapluie must have been upon his strength.

It is true that Britannia would have looked a little incongruous with a parapluie.—I put this in French in honour of the Brave Beige Mi Lor de Keyser,—but, on the other hand, she did not seem much like England without one.

So, touching my hat with some playfulness, I said, "Monsieur, vous voulez perdre votre parapluie."

I explained that I had given the French gentleman a caution as to his parapluie, to which I pointed as sticking out of his pocket.

She was climbing up, or climbing down, perplexed equally, as I gather, by the management of her parapluie and of her—enfin, her petticoats.