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Updated: June 2, 2025
The stone carvings of the present day were a great deal better. An inscription in Phoenician characters amazed them. No one could possibly have ever read that scrawl. But Monsieur Madinier, already up on the first landing with Madame Lorilleux, called to them, shouting beneath the vaulted ceiling: "Come along! They're nothing, all those things! The things to see are on the first floor!"
It took a quarter of an hour of laborious calculations before everything was settled to the general satisfaction. But when Monsieur Madinier, who wished to deal direct with the landlord, had got him to step up, the whole party became lost in astonishment on hearing him say with a smile that there was still something due to him.
But Madinier shouted to them from the stairs, "Come on! That is nothing! Much more interesting things up here, I assure you!" The severe nudity of the great staircase cast a gloom over their spirits; an usher in livery added to their awe, and it was with great respect and on the tips of their toes they entered the French gallery. How many statues! How many pictures!
The dessert was now on the table a floating island flanked by two plates of cheese and two of fruit. The floating island was a great success. Mes-Bottes ate all the cheese and called for more bread. And then as some of the custard was left in the dish, he pulled it toward him and ate it as if it had been soup. "How extraordinary!" said Madinier, filled with admiration.
Gervaise read the various signs on the doors giving the names of the occupants: "Madame Gaudron, wool-carder" and "Monsieur Madinier, cardboard boxes."
At the foot Madinier wished to pay, but Coupeau interfered and put into the hand of the guard twenty-four sous two for each person. It was now half-past five; they had just time to get to the restaurant, but Coupeau proposed a glass of vermouth first, and they entered a cabaret for that purpose.
During the next ten days, he got hold of guests in the house where his sister lived in the Rue de la Goutte-d'Or Monsieur Madinier, Mademoiselle Remanjou, Madame Gaudron and her husband. He even ended by getting Gervaise to consent to the presence of two of his comrades Bibi-the-Smoker and My-Boots.
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