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Besides fear of fever, they are victims to ennui and nostalgia; and, expecting the Comptoir to pay large profits, they are greatly disappointed by the reverse being the case. But how can they look for it to be otherwise? The modern French appear fit to manage only garrisons and military posts.
This matter of saluting, as the reader knows, is a deference which every Frenchman considers due to the great man or woman who, at the particular time of his entrance or exit, may chance to be in a particular apartment; and in the case of cafés, if the dame de comptoir were not in her place, he would salute the guests; and if there were but one guest, that one would be expected to return the salute, it being meant for him alone.
In a few minutes the Frenchman entered, paused at the comptoir, as was his habit, to address a polite salutation to the well-dressed lady who there presided, nodded as usual to Armand Monnier, then glanced round, recognized Graham with a smile, and approached his table with the quiet grace of movement by which he was distinguished.
To hold the balance straight, however, I may remark that if the men were all fearful "cads," they were, with their cigarettes and their inconsistency, less heavy, less brutal, than our dear English-speaking cad; just as the bright little café where a robust materfamilias, doling out sugar and darning a stocking, sat in her place under the mirror behind the comptoir, was a much more civilised spot than a British public-house or a "commercial room," with pipes and whisky, or even than an American saloon.
She dresses very well, and has a great deal of talk; but, though she is a very good imitation of a lady, I never see her behind the dinner-table, in the evening, smiling and bowing, as the people come in, and looking all the while at the dishes and the servants, without thinking of a dame de comptoir blooming in a corner of a shop or a restaurant.
"Madame," he said, "I wish to see Monsieur le propriétaire." The dame de comptoir looked very uneasy. "If Monsieur has any complaint to make," she said, "he can make it to me." "Madame, I have none." "Or if it has reference to the ordering of a dinner...." Müller smiled loftily. "Dinner, Madame," he said, with a disdainful gesture, "is but one of the accidents common to humanity. A trifle!
The women there mainly attend to business serving the BOUTIQUE, or presiding at the COMPTOIR while the men lounge about the Boulevards. But the result has only been homelessness, degeneracy, and family and social decay. Nor is there any reason to believe that the elevation and improvement of women are to be secured by investing them with political power.
As he intended to sojourn there for a season, he took with him his wife, who was a goodly dame, and his daughter, a gentle damsel, of marriageable age, and exceeding fair to look upon. He was attended by a trusty clerk from his comptoir, and a man servant; while another servant led a hackney, laden with bags of money, with which he intended to purchase merchandise.
This investment is at present very beneficial, and certainly promises great eventual advantages. The dividends are paid in two half-yearly instalments. The Caisse de Commerce and the Comptoir Commercial are two establishments on the same plan, and affording, as nearly as possible, the same advantages as the Banque de France: the only difference is as follows: 1.
It is the typical French café, in the central salon of which, in majestic repose, sits the dame de comptoir, who has a little gray moustache the French like a little hair upon the upper lip of ladies whilst overhead, forming a part of the extraordinary decoration, is a Madonna, goddess, angel I can't say what copied from one of the old masters in the palace of the Luxembourg.
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