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In the Rue Taitbout were the Concerts Rouge, where for seventy-five centimes they could hear excellent music and get into the bargain something which it was quite possible to drink: the seats were uncomfortable, the place was crowded, the air thick with caporal horrible to breathe, but in their young enthusiasm they were indifferent. Sometimes they went to the Bal Bullier.
At times, however, the Latin Quarter students use it as a thoroughfare between the rue de Rennes and the Bullier, but except for that and the weekly afternoon visits of parents and guardians to the Convent near the rue Vavin, the street of Our Lady of the Fields is as quiet as a Passy boulevard.
"He's got a wonderful voice, but I wouldn't have paid for his training if he hadn't something that's bullier." "What's that?" "The devil's own ambition." Crayford had not mistaken his man. He seldom did. Alston Lake had a will of iron and was possessed of a passionate determination to succeed. He had a driving reason that made him resolve to "win out" as he called it.
For the moment, I want to go somewhere else; it's my dream. I want to go to the Bal Bullier." "To the Bal Bullier?" repeated Newman, for whom the words at first meant nothing. "The ball in the Latin Quarter, where the students dance with their mistresses. Don't tell me you have not heard of it." "Oh yes," said Newman; "I have heard of it; I remember now. I have even been there.
There never were two men more different than he and I are; and I suppose that's why we get on so well together. When we were in Paris he was always up to his eyes in serious work lectures, public libraries, workmen's syndicates, Mary Anne, the International heaven knows what, making himself master of the political situation in France; while I was rigolant and chaloupant at the Bal Bullier.
And the Bullier, ghost now of the old Bullier where once little Luzanne, the inspiration of a hundred palettes, tripped the polka, the new Bullier with its coloured electricity and ragtime band and professional treaders of the Avenue de l'Observatoire, is eke romance to his nostril.
"And to have her loving you and trusting you as she did awfully comic, wasn't it? Calling you her girl-friend " "Shut up, will you?" "And thinking she had created a new heaven and a new earth for you. Silly sentimental little school-girl!" "Will you hold your tongue?" "So long, Lottie," cried the girl of her party; "we're off to the Bullier. You've got better fish to fry, I see."
He had drunk a good deal, but any inebriety from which he suffered was due much more to his own vivacity than to alcohol. He proposed that they should go to the Bal Bullier, and Philip, feeling too tired to go to bed, willingly enough consented. They sat down at a table on the platform at the side, raised a little from the level of the floor so that they could watch the dancing, and drank a bock.
On my arrival in Paris I had visited, in the company of my taciturn valet, the Mabille and the Valentino, and I had dined at the Maison d'Or by myself; but now I was taken to strange students' cafés, where dinners were paid for in pictures; to a mysterious place, where a table d'hôte was held under a tent in a back garden; and afterwards we went in great crowds to Bullier, the Château Rouge, or the Elysée Montmartre.
The coverlid was drawn carefully up over the pillow, but it moulded the outline of a human body lying motionless; and when he dashed forward and flung aside the sheets, he beheld the blond young man whom he had seen in the Bullier Ball the night before, his eyes open and without speculation, his face swollen and blackened, and a thin stream of blood trickling from his nostrils.
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