chanve

Updated: May 9, 2025

I shall be there till three. And each was signed with the initials, N.C. It was not yet two, so I had plenty of time. But you will believe that I didn't loiter on that account. I dashed out of the loge into the street down the Boulevard St. Michel into the Bleu, breathlessly. At the far end Nina was seated before a marble table, with Madame Chanve in smiles and tears beside her.

Henry Harland - Grey Roses

And Madame Chanve didn't mind in the least; she preferred a bird in the hand to a brace in the bush. From half a dozen to a score of us dined at her long table every evening; as many more drank her appetisers in the afternoon, and came again at night for grog or coffee. You see, it was a sort of club, a club of which Childe was at once the chairman and the object.

Henry Harland - Grey Roses