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In Petersburg, besides business, his sister's divorce, and his coveted appointment, he wanted, as he always did, to freshen himself up, as he said, after the mustiness of Moscow. In spite of its cafés chantants and its omnibuses, Moscow was yet a stagnant bog. Stepan Arkadyevitch always felt it.
Petersburg, Moscow, and Odessa. Drunkenness and debauchery reigned paramount. Low gambling-houses, café chantants, and less reputable establishments flourished under the liberal patronage of the Russian officers, who, out of sheer ennui, ruined their pockets and constitutions with drunken orgies, night and day.
Some of the cafés chantants are patronized by the well-dressed class, and a blousard is no more likely to be seen in their orchestra fauteuils than in the same division of the regular theatres. The El Dorado, for example, in the Boulevard Strasbourg, is as large and almost as elegant as Booth's Theatre in New York, but it is a café chantant.
The military authorities have entertained favourably the requests of theatrical managers for permission to re-open the theatres, but the re-opening of the cafés chantants has not yet been authorized. Aubry, agent of the International Society and treasurer of the Commune, was arrested yesterday. It is said that, until further orders, no one is to be allowed to pass the gates of Paris after 9 p.m.
Beyond it lay the naked coral reefs, the empty sky, and the ragged palms of Porto Banos. Livingstone felt that his legation was slipping from him. "That wireless operator," he continued hastily, "tells me there is a most amusing place a few miles down the coast, Las Bocas, a sort of Coney Island, where the government people go for the summer. There's surf bathing and roulette and cafes chantants.
"Yes; I stayed a day or two after my mother. One didn't want to come back to this dull hole." "Did you see the new piece at the Francais?" He made a face. "Not I! One couldn't be caught by such vieux jeu as that! There was a splendid woman in one of the cafes chantants but I suppose you don't go to cafes chantants?"
All the cafés chantants are closed. Some few youthful votaries of pleasure still patronise the merry-go-rounds; but the business cannot be a lucrative one. Along the quays by the river side there are cavalry and infantry regiments under tentes d'abri. The Champ de Mars is a camp. In most of the squares there are sheep and oxen.
With him as leader they all sang a song of the Pyrenees mountaineers, then a waltz from the cafes chantants: "Bien gentiment l'on se balade. C'est la premiere promenade " In another week we should have had a Gallipoli Glee Club. And so ended the adventure of the fifty hostages, who went out to be shot at the end of the comedy, which had its climax at the beginning.
Emile glanced at her sharply, but her tone and manner was both absolutely void of conceit. "Well, why didn't you accept his offer?" "I don't know. I suppose because it was fated I should come here. He wanted me to make my début at the cafés chantants, but I didn't like the idea somehow. He said my voice was only fit for the stage, and would sound horrible in a room."
In London nothing interested her but the theatres and the shops; and she found the theatres less exciting than the Paris cafes chantants where, under the blossoming horse-chestnuts of the Champs Elysees, she had had the novel experience of looking down from the restaurant terrace on an audience of "cocottes," and having her husband interpret to her as much of the songs as he thought suitable for bridal ears.
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