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For her every meal was a species of torment, and the procession of bocks in the smoking room a tantalizing agony. The slenderness achieved and maintained by will power only made more prominent the size of her frame, the powerful skeleton with heavy jaws and large teeth, strong and dazzling, which perhaps suggested Desnoyers' disrespectful comparison.
From six to eight glasses piled up on the table in front of him indicated the number of "bocks" he had already absorbed. At a glance I recognized a "regular," one of those frequenters of beer houses who come in the morning when the place opens, and do not leave till evening when it is about to close.
We used to spend two or three evenings a week together, at his place or at mine, or over the table of a café, talking till the small hours Elysian sessions, at which we smoked more cigarettes and emptied more bocks than I should care to count.
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.
A voice in the distance repeated: "Two 'bocks, instead of four." Another voice, more distant still, shouted out: "Here they are, sir, here they are." Immediately there appeared a man with a white apron, carrying two 'bocks, which he set down foaming on the table, the foam running over the edge, on to the sandy floor.
Suddenly she had ceased to see the pearls as trinkets finite and inapposite saw them as things presently transmutable into little marble tables, bocks, dominos, absinthes au sucre, shiny black portfolios with weekly journals in them, yellow staves with daily journals flapping from them, vermouths secs, vermouths cassis... "Mademoiselle is too amiable," she said, taking the pearls.
I felt my face getting red. I insisted: "But every day?" "Every day it is the same thing," was his reply, accompanied with a thick puff of tobacco smoke. He then tapped with a sou on the top of the marble table, to attract the attention of the waiter, and called out: "Waiter, two 'bocks." A voice in the distance repeated: "Two bocks for the fourth table."
Meuse to watch the evacuation, and who wrote their letters in the cafe over the way to the accompaniment of verres of absinthe and bocks of beer. Then there was the gallant captain of gendarmes, who had arrived in St. Meuse with a trusty band of twenty-five subordinates to take over from the Germans the municipal superintendence of the place, and, later, the occupation of the fortress.
From six to eight glasses piled up on the table in front of him indicated the number of "bocks" he had already absorbed. At a glance I recognized a "regular," one of those frequenters of beer houses who come in the morning when the place opens, and do not leave till evening when it is about to close.
From six to eight beer saucers were piled up on the table in front of him, indicating the number of "bocks" he had already absorbed. With that same glance I had recognized in him a "regular toper," one of those frequenters of beer-houses, who come in the morning as soon as the place is open, and only go away in the evening when it is about to close.
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