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Updated: May 1, 2025
There are peaceful, chosen hours when it becomes almost impossible to talk. The servants waited on them noiselessly. The firmamental conflagration faded away, and the soft night spread its shadows over the earth. "Are you going to stay long in this place?" asked Saval. And the Marquise answered, dwelling on each word: "Yes, as long as I am happy." As it was too dark to see, lamps were brought.
At last, the dancing ceased. M. Saval said: "Gentlemen " A tall young fellow, fair-haired and bearded to the nose, interrupted him: "What's your name, my friend?" The notary, quite scared, said: "I am M. Saval." A voice exclaimed: "You mean Baptiste." A woman said: "Let the poor waiter alone! You'll end by making him get angry. He's paid to wait on us, and not to be laughed at by us."
The notary filled the part of leader of the orchestra with so much correctness that the bandmaster of the 190th regiment of the line said of him, one day, at the Cafe de l'Europe. "Oh! M. Saval is a master. It is a great pity that he did not adopt the career of an artist."
"You will bring up my dinner at once, and then carry to my new studio, 15 Boulevard de Clichy, thirty bottles of beer, and the ham I ordered this morning. We are going to have a housewarming." M. Saval immediately ordered dinner. Then, he took off his overcoat, so that his dress suit and his white tie could be seen. His neighbor did not seem to notice him.
"Let us toss a coin to see who shall go up," said the Chevalier. He took a five-franc piece from his pocket, and began with the Prince. "Tail," said he. It was head. The Prince tossed the coin in his turn saying to Saval: "Call, Monsieur." Saval called "Head." It was tail. The Prince then gave all the others a chance, and they all lost.
She responded, laughing, with something of her former tone of voice. "Great goose! what ails you? I knew it from the very first day!" Saval began to tremble. He stammered out: "You knew it? Then . . ." He stopped. She asked: "Then?" He answered: "Then what did you think? What what what would you have answered?" She broke into a peal of laughter.
His features labored with thought, and he recognized me." "'Saval! he ejaculated hoarsely. 'You you want me?" "I sat down at his table. 'I haven't come to arrest you, I told him. 'But you had better know that the authorities have decided to arrest you." "He gasped. 'For for " "'I don't know what for, I told him. 'For whatever you have been doing."
Silently he offered her his arm and they went down the long drawing-room together. Saval was not alone, for the Marquise Obardi had rejoined him. She conversed with him on ordinary and fashionable subjects with a seductiveness in her tones which intoxicated him. And, looking at her with his mental eye, it seemed to him that her lips, uttered words far different from those which they formed.
Then Yvette distinctly said: "No, mamma, I shall stay in the house to-day, and you know very well why, because I told you the other evening." Madame Obardi gave it no further thought, preoccupied with the thought of remaining alone with Saval. She blushed and was annoyed, disturbed on her own account, not knowing how she could find a free hour or two. She stammered: "It is true.
She then turned on her heels and went back to her jam-making. Saval rushed into the street, cast down, as though he had met with some disaster. He walked with giant strides through the rain, straight on, until he reached the river bank, without thinking where he was going. He then turned to the right and followed the river. He walked a long time, as if urged on by some instinct.
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