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Updated: May 27, 2025
Cadet-Cassis, who was a thorough Parisian, thought Gueule-d'Or very stupid. What was the sense of turning away from all the pretty girls he met in the street? But this did not prevent the two young fellows from liking each other very heartily. For three years the lives of these people flowed tranquilly on without an event.
Poor Cadet-Cassis!" Gervaise kissed her new mother with tears in her eyes but with smiling lips. She answered the old woman gently: "Do not be afraid. I will do my best to make him happy. If things turn out ill it shall not be my fault." The party went at once to the Moulin d'Argent. Coupeau now walked with his wife some little distance in advance of the others.
But he wanted to tell them now not to expect him that night, as he was invited to dine with a friend. Gervaise interrupted him suddenly: "Did I hear your friend call you Cadet-Cassis?" "Yes. That is a name they have given me, because when they drag me into a wineshop it is cassis I always take. I had as lief be called Cadet-Cassis as Mes-Bottes, any time."
"Are you in earnest?" he murmured, and then continued as if soliloquizing, "It is hard to know when this confounded Cadet-Cassis is in earnest." "We have no advice to give," interrupted his wife. "It is a foolish notion, this marrying, and it never succeeds. Never no never." She drawled out these last words, examining Gervaise from head to foot as she spoke.
"Yes," said Coupeau in an explanatory voice, "there are four different kinds of chains, and his style is called a column." Lorilleux uttered a little grunt of satisfaction, all the time at work, with the tiny pincers held between very dirty nails. "Look here, Cadet-Cassis," he said. "This very morning I made a little calculation. I began my work when I was only twelve years old.
"I do not think Cadet-Cassis so very bad," answered Gervaise, and she asked him about his work. How long should he be employed on the new hospital? "Oh," he answered, "there was never any lack of work." He had always more than he could do. He should remain in that shop at least a year, for he had yards and yards of gutters to make.
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