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Updated: June 11, 2025
"Not one word against the pictures," replied the other. "How else here do I live?" "No journals," pursued Truesdale; "no demi-tasse, no clientele, no leisure. No," he added, with the idea of a more general summing up, "nor any excursions; nor any general market; nor any military; nor even any morgue. And five francs for a cab. Quelle ville!"
His face was dead white; his fingers moved a little, nervously, weakly, then they were still. Several people rose at the sound of the falling body, and the new-comer hurried forward. His coat sleeve caught the empty demi-tasse, as he stooped, and swept it to the floor, where it was shattered. The head waiter and another came, pell-mell, and those diners who had risen came more slowly.
But just as if he had seen me yesterday he said, "Tiens! c'est vous; une demi-tasse? oui...garçon, une demi-tasse." Presently the conversation turned on Marshall; they had not seen much of him lately. "Il parait qu'il est plus amoureux que jamais," Julien replied sardonically. I found my friend in large furnished apartments on the ground floor in the Rue Duphot.
For the wine, give me a reasonable Ponty Cany. And that's all, except a demi-tasse." "Well," says Caligula, "I reckon in New York you get to be a conniseer; and when you go around with the demi-tasse you are naturally bound to buy 'em stylish grub." "It's a great town for epicures," says I. "You'd soon fall into their ways if you was there." "I've heard it was," says Caligula.
Once in a while the evening might be stormy, and then the gauntlets would be laid on the dresser perhaps after an informal smoke in pajamas among the curios ranged round the small den. Cope set down his demi-tasse with a slight sigh. "Well," he said, "I suppose that, before long, I shall have to buy a few sticks of furniture myself and a trifle of 'crockery. And a percolator."
She loitered over a demi-tasse, and that finished, sat with her elbow on the table, her chin in her hand, looking darkly at the changing groups in the room. The fun at the table where the college boys sat began to grow a little noisy; the fat man, now a purplish shade, ambled away behind his slim companion; the newspaper woman pinned on her business-like hat and stalked out.
His ideas and his language and his morals were all as perfectly polished as his finger-nails; and never before in his life had Thyrsis had such a red rag waved in his face. But he had come there for the dinner, and he attended to that, and let Dr. Holland provide the flow of soul; until at the very end, when the doctor was sipping his demi-tasse.
Prale saw him stop the waiter and speak to him, and the waiter glared at him when he brought the demi-tasse. Prale did not care. He glared back at the man, drank the coffee, and touched the match to a cigar. Then he signed the check and went from the dining room, an angry and disgusted man. "Another thing like that, and I look for the manager," he told himself.
Even to the very ridge of the roof may be seen here and there one of these air-holes, with a stove pipe beside it, to carry off the smoke from the handful of fuel with which its weazen-faced tenant simmers his demi-tasse of coffee.
This being clear at last, the newcomer said: "Oh, very well! Then just give my order to the head-waiter, will you there's a good chap a cup of consommé, a bit of fish, a bird of some sort, broiled, I fancy, er potatoes au gratin, a green salad of some kind, serve that with the bird, a piece of Camembert, if it's in good condition, any entremet you have and a demi-tasse.
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