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A box-opener, speaking to Sidonie, referred to Georges as "your husband," and the little woman beamed with delight. "Your husband!" That simple phrase was enough to upset her and set in motion a multitude of evil currents in the depths of her heart. As they passed through the corridors and the foyer, she watched Risler and Madame "Chorche" walking in front of them.
The door opened to let the box-opener slip through, and the phrase drawing to the end reached Vronsky's hearing clearly. But the doors were closed again at once, and Vronsky did not hear the end of the phrase and the cadence of the accompaniment, though he knew from the thunder of applause that it was over.
One evening at the opera, ten years later, in handing his overcoat to a venerable-looking old dame, Agénor heard himself saluted by the following little speech: "Ah, how happy I am to see you again, prince! And not changed not at all changed. Still the same, absolutely the same still twenty." It was Mme. Picard, who had been raised to the dignity of box-opener.
'You should not let in such suspicious-looking people, said Madame Bonanni to the box-opener in a severe tone. The poor soul began an apology, but Madame Bonanni did not stop to listen, and entered the box again, shutting the door behind her.
A box-opener, speaking to Sidonie, referred to Georges as "your husband," and the little woman beamed with delight. "Your husband!" That simple phrase was enough to upset her and set in motion a multitude of evil currents in the depths of her heart. As they passed through the corridors and the foyer, she watched Risler and Madame "Chorche" walking in front of them.
She was not then box-opener of the National Academy of Music; she had in those times as office and it was not a sinecure the position of aunt to a nice young person who showed a very pretty face and a very pretty pair of legs in the chorus of the revues of the Variétée.
A box-opener of the first tier of boxes at the opera, having generally only to do with absolutely high-born people, considers herself as being a little of their set, and shows extreme disdain for unimportant people; it displeases her to receive these unimportant people in her boxes. Mme. Picard, however, had tact which rarely forsook her, and so stopped herself in time to say: "People of your set.
Picard was the box-opener of the Sainte Mesmes, and that he, Prince of Nérins, had had the honor of being for a long time a friend of that good Mme. Picard. It was she who in the last years of the Second Empire had taught him bezique in all its varieties Japanese, Chinese, etc. He was then twenty, Mme. Picard was forty.
I must go home to dinner. My wife is a box-opener she will not know what has become of me. The theatre opens at a quarter to six, you know." "Yes, I know... but remember dat I am alone in die earth, dat I haf no friend. You dat haf shed a tear for Bons enliden me; I am in teep tarkness, und Bons said dat I vas in der midst of shcoundrels."
She rose with evident annoyance, and opened again, to meet the respectable old box-opener, a grey-haired woman of fifty-five. 'Please, Madame, is the woman to go away? She seems to be waiting for something. 'Tell her to go to all the devils! answered Madame Bonanni, furious. 'No don't! she cried. 'Where is she? Come here, you! she called, seeing the woman at a little distance.
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