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Updated: June 26, 2025
Only the sound of Berthe's brisk footstep from the kitchen enabled me, forced me, to drop it, and to utter: "What shall we have to eat, Soames?" "Il est souffrant, ce pauvre Monsieur Soames?" asked Berthe. "He's only tired." I asked her to get some wine Burgundy and whatever food might be ready. Soames sat crouched forward against the table exactly as when last I had seen him.
Here Durtal often succeeded in getting out of himself, in dreaming over the distressful weariness of these streams, and in ceasing to meditate on his own qualms, till he presently was tired of constant excursions in the same quarter of the town, and then he tramped through it in every direction, trying to find an interest in the sight of time-worn spots the grace of Queen Berthe's tower, of Claude Huvé's house and other buildings that have survived the shock of ages; but the enthusiasm he threw into the study of these relics, spoilt by the foregone eulogiums of the guides, could not last, and he then fell back on the churches.
"I wonder how many people they are good for, those circus parades of yours," said Andrews. "Where are you going to spend the night?" said Henslowe. "I don't know.... I suppose I can find a hotel or something." "Why don't you come with me and see Berthe; she probably has friends." "I want to wander about alone, not that I scorn Berthe's friends," said Andrews...."But I am so greedy for solitude."
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