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Do you want to see it?" She nodded, and they approached the circle in the middle of which `La Pataude' and `Grille d'Egout' were holding high carnival. At every ostentatious display of hosiery the crowd roared. "Brava! Bis!" cried an absinthe-soaked old gentleman; "vive La Pataude!" For answer the lady dexterously raised his hat from his head with the point of her satin slipper.
The next few days were the most anxious of my life. Never before had I lived on terms of intimacy with a picric bomb, that most deadly and uncertain of all explosive agencies. I speedily found that Simard was so absinthe-soaked I could do nothing with him. He could not be bribed or cajoled or persuaded or threatened.
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