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Another voice, more distant still, shouted out: "Here they are!" Immediately a man with a white apron appeared, carrying two "bocks," which he set down, foaming, on the table, spilling some of the yellow liquid on the sandy floor in his haste. Des Barrets emptied his glass at a single draught and replaced it on the table, while he sucked in the foam that had been left on his mustache.
The long, low-ceilinged room was dim with tobacco smoke, noisy with ribald jests and laughter. Here and there the waitresses, girls coquettishly dressed, tripped with bottles and syphons, foaming bocks, and glasses of brandy or liqueurs.
They looked as quiet as if they had been waiting for their bocks before a Boulevard cafe. "Not beyond, please," said the officer, holding me back; and I stopped. Here we were, then, actually and literally in the first lines!
To their coarse-fibred minds there was nothing pathetic or tragic about the affair at all. The train gathered speed. The air was full of last messages. Uncle John said on second thoughts he wasn't sure these Bocks weren't half a bad smoke after all. Gladys Maud cried, because she had taken a sudden dislike to the village idiot; and Mike settled himself in the corner and opened a magazine.
No more is Clifford, it seems," Rex added with a laugh, as Clifford threw down his cue and took a step of the devil's quadrille. "Oh! Elliott!" he crowed, "what's the matter with you?" Elliott turned and punched a sleepy waiter in the ribs. "Emile two bocks!" The waiter jumped up and rubbed his eyes. "What is it, monsieur?" he snapped.
Now and then there would be a rush of people, and then the human tide would disperse again under the trees among the zinc chairs and tables, for the enjoyment of bocks and cigars. I noticed that Marie's friends spent their evening in the left-hand corner; but they did not call me to drink with them, knowing well that I knew the money they were spending was stolen money.
Sypher ordered two more bocks for the good of the house, while Septimus, still lost in thought, brought his hair to its highest pitch of Struwel Peterdom. Passers-by turned round to look at them, for well-dressed Englishmen do not often sit outside a Marchand des vins, especially one with such hair. But passers-by are polite in France and do not salute the unfamiliar with ribaldry.
'I told you expecially we wanted two bocks. 'I've got two pockets and I've got two bocks. Let me give him his, Sara darling. But 'Sara darling' dropped her own 'bock' the better to cling round the neck of the giver. Naturally Master Cecil sounded the horn of indignation. 'Hush! commanded his sister.
Bruant, with the manners, the courteous dignity, of a prince, led our Mademoiselle Miss back to us, ordered bocks for her, for me the only other woman at our table and for himself, touched his with his lips, bowed, was gone and singing again before we could show that we had not yet learned to drain our glasses in the fashion approved of at the Mirliton.
If we must have something we'll have a madère is that respectable? Not particularly? So much the better. What are those people having? Bocks? Couldn't we have bocks? Are they very low? Then I shall have one. I've been so wonderfully good I've been staying at Versailles: je me dois bien cela." She insisted, but pronounced the thin liquid in the tall glass very disgusting when it was brought.
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