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Updated: June 3, 2025
Sprightly notes from the song of a cafe chantant hovered on his thin, dry lips. Medallion, amused, yet with a hushed kind of feeling through all his nerves, pushed the Avocat's tumbler till it touched his fingers. The thin fingers twined round it, and once more he came to his feet. He raised the glass. "To " for a minute he got no further "To the wedding-eve!" he said, and sipped the hot wine.
Originally connected with an English circus troupe touring in Holland, she appears, about seventeen, to have been engaged as a "song and dance artiste" at a particularly shady cafe chantant in Rotterdam, frequented chiefly by sailors.
Consequently, Martin's attitude in the presence of the millionaire shipowner was as free from constraint or subservience as it would be in the dressing-room of La Belle Ariola, who danced the bolero at a café chantant, or in the ward of the Malesherbes Hôpital, interviewing an apache with a cracked skull.
Again he heard his daughter's voice below, now singing a gay little French chanson, a song of the café chantant and of the Paris boulevards. In a flash there recurred to him every incident of those dramatic interviews with the Mephistophelean doctor.
On the first floor of a building on the Rue Montpensier, close at hand, was a cafe chantant, where many people entered. "Suppose we go in," said Planus, desirous of banishing his friend's melancholy at any cost, "the beer is excellent." Risler assented to the suggestion; he had not tasted beer for six months. It was a former restaurant transformed into a concert-hall.
To what had happened in that interval of ten minutes there was no clue. The young fellow did not dare to go back to the Grand Hotel and report his failure. He wandered about aimlessly and miserably, until a flaunting poster outside an all-night café chantant caught his eye and decided him to enter and kill time until some plan for retrieving his failure might occur to him.
"Why, how true that is," he said, "and I never thought of it. Sir, you have an intellect beyond the common. You will make a name." "Oh, you're as drunk as an owl!" said the Doctor. And so I will, by George!" And he stood up suddenly, his yellow hair blowing in the slight sea breeze. A band was playing in a cafe chantant hidden somewhere among the trees, and a woman had just stopped singing.
"Sleep well," he counselled, "for to-morrow we shall be en fête." Then he swung open my door and passed out into the night, whistling as he crossed my courtyard a café chantant air that Germaine had taught him. A moment later, the siren of the yellow car sent forth its warning wail, and he was speeding back to his presbytery under the guidance of Germaine's chauffeur.
It was indeed affirmed in his circle of acquaintance that he had been seen playing a fiddle at one of the cheap theatres; that he had been recognized in the dress of a fiacre-driver, and in that of a waiter at a Café Chantant: but these reports were idly spread, and wanted confirmation. They might or might not have been true.
Janice smiled pleasantly, and placing herself in the closest possible proximity with the ear trumpet, at once rendered the desired morceau in a style which would have done credit to a soloist in a café chantant. Aunt Mary’s lips wreathed in seraphic bliss. "My!" she said. "I feel just as if I was back eatin’ crabs’ legs and tails again.
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