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The old rubber pouch, pitched by a cricketer's hand, flies in among the domino-players, and rebounds from a pondering head, as the orderly comes back, and lifts one corner of the tarpaulin for the Doctor to pass in. A pack of ravening wolves tussling over an unusually small baby might distantly reproduce the scene Saxham leaves behind him.
"I brought you in here that you might sit at Voltaire's table, and eat your steak under the shadow of Voltaire's bust; but this salon is chiefly frequented by law-students the other by medical and art students. Your place, mon chér, as well as mine, is in the outer sanctuary." "That infernal Martial!" groaned one of the domino-players at the other end of the table.
Ser Giacomo, the notary, folds up his newspaper in dead silence, puts it into his pocket, and departs. The lights in the dark café, which burn sometimes all day when it is cloudy, are extinguished. The domino-players disappear. Oreste and Pilade shut up their shop despondingly. The baker Pietro comes out no more to cool at the door.
I am rewarded by the power to go home to Marseilles and tell my companion domino-players in the Café Dame de la Garde that I saw the renowned constructor of the new cannon M. Felix Clemenceau, with whom the Emperor has spoken about the defense of our beloved country!" Clemenceau could only bow under this deluge of words. "M. Clemenceau, will you honor me with the clasp of the hand?"
Why, this house will become a sight for the world and his wife to flock unto! I am proud that I have stood within the walls and I shall tell the domino-players of the Café but never mind that now! To business! Between ourselves, are you particularly fond of this house?" "It is my only French home, where I brought my bride, where my child was born where the great child of my brain came forth "
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