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Says he to me, tellin' me about it just now: 'That's all right, Andy, but how in blue blazes did he, or anybody else except Matthews and the caller, know that the 266 was goin' out? that's what I'd like to know. And I had to pass it up." Lidgerwood asked a single question. "Did Williams find that anything had been tampered with?" "Nothing that you could shoot up the back-shop man for.
To be the king of a first night, raining applause and bouquets from his stage-box, seemed to give him infinite content; but his vanity was hardly less flattered by the compliments say of M. Tournonville, the well-known dealer on the Quai Voltaire, who would bow himself before the young Englishman with the admiring cry, "Mon Dieu! milord, que vous etes fin connoisseur!" while the dealer's assistant grinned among the shadows of the back-shop.
I burn our sign, 'The Queen of Roses'; I efface the name, 'Cesar Birotteau, Perfumer, Successor to Ragon, and put simply, 'Perfumery' in big letters of gold. On the entresol I place the office, the counting-room, and a pretty little sanctum for you. I make the shop out of the back-shop, the present dining-room, and kitchen.
And she would tremble awestruck as if she were the mother of a god, this poor sick work-woman whose puling child lay beside her drooping in the poisoned air of a back-shop: But for the nonce, on mother's breast, My sweet boy-bishop, take thy rest. One evening, as her husband handed her a cooling drink, she said to him in a tone of regret: "Why did you disturb me?
In one such moment of esthetic emotion in Amelie's back-shop, he improvised a revolutionary song, which was at once tried, repeated, and on the very next day spread to every group of the working-classes. He compromised himself. He was marked by the police. "That Krafft of yours is making himself a nuisance," said Bernard to Manousse. "He's playing the braggart.
"There isn't a book even in the glass-case that's worth a five-pound note," continued Mr. James, whispering, "and he don't look about for purchases any more. Seems to have lost his pluck." Mr. Chalker returned to the back-shop. "Within three weeks, Mr. Emblem," he repeated, and then departed. Mr. Emblem sat in his chair. He had to find three hundred and fifty pounds in three weeks.
"Monsieur," he said, "the press will be ready to work to-morrow." "Why, what's the matter, Popinot?" asked Cesar, as he saw Anselme blush. "Monsieur, it is the joy of having found a shop, a back-shop, kitchen, chambers above them, and store-rooms, all for twelve hundred francs a year, in the Rue des Cinq-Diamants." "We must take a lease of eighteen years," said Birotteau.
After three weeks of Lucia Harden's society, he had perceived how sordid were the beginnings from which his life had sprung. As his boyish dreams had been wrought like a broidery of stars on the floor of the back-shop, so honour, an unattainable ideal, had stood out in forlorn splendour against a darker and a dirtier background. He had felt himself obscurely tainted and involved.
The storerooms held small casks of various oils, obtained for Popinot on commission by the devoted Gaudissart. The ledgers, the accounts, and the desks were moved into the rooms above the shop and the back-shop. An old cook did all the household work for the master and his three clerks.
It had a glass door opening upon a sort of iron balcony, from which the cook drew up water in a bucket, and where the household washing was done. The back-shop was made the dining-room, office, and salon of the merchant. The formidable corporations of Paris were at that time able to arm a hundred thousand men.
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