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He had become strangely bound up in Berselius; he had developed an affection for this man almost brotherly, and Schaunard's remark hit him and made him wince. For Schaunard employed the present tense. "Yes," said Adams at last, "it was very grand."
To him, thus meditating, from the Rue de la Paix suddenly came a gush of sound which as suddenly ceased. The shop door had opened and closed again, and Schaunard leaving his office came out to see who the visitor might be. He found himself face to face with Adams.
In the first act we see the joyous quartet of Bohemians in their Paris attic Rodolphe the poet, Marcel the painter, Colline the philosopher, and Schaunard the musician.
They did, and nearly an hour was spent whilst the American chose a double hammerless-ejector cordite rifle and a .256 sporting Mannlicher, for Schaunard was a man who, when he took an interest in a customer, could be very interesting. When business was concluded Schaunard gave his customer various tips as to the treatment of guns.
Honoré, where they parted. "Good luck," said Stenhouse, getting into a fiacre. "Good-bye," replied Adams, waving his hand. Being in that quarter of the town, and having nothing especial to do, he determined to go to Schaunard's in the Rue de la Paix, and see about his guns. Schaunard personally superintends his own shop, which is the first gun-shop on the Continent of Europe.
The duelling pistol is still a factor in Continental life, and the cases containing them at Schaunard's are worth lingering over, for the modern duelling pistol is a thing of beauty, very different from the murderous hair-trigger machines of Count Considine though just as deadly. To Schaunard, pottering amongst his wares, appeared Adams.
He was only a week back all he had seen out there was fresh to him and very vivid, but he felt in Schaunard an antagonistic spirit, and he did not care to go deeper into his experiences. Schaunard took down that grim joke, Ledger D, placed it on the table and opened it, but without turning the leaves. "And how is Monsieur le Capitaine?" asked he. "He has been very ill, but he is much better.
He knew him by his size, but he would scarcely have recognized him by his face, so brown, so thin and so different in expression was it from the face of the man with whom he had parted but a few months ago. "Good day," said Adams. "I have come to pay you for that gun." "Ah, yes, the gun," said Schaunard with a little laugh, "this is a pleasant surprise. I had entered it amidst my bad debts.
Schaunard sat amazed, not at the infamies pouring from Adams's mouth, for he was well acquainted with them, but at the man's vehemence and energy. "I have come to Europe to expose him," finished Adams. "Expose who?" "Leopold, King of the Belgians." "But, my dear Monsieur Adams, you have come to waste your time; he is already exposed. Expose Leopold, King of the Belgians!
This fact did not interfere with his trade a godly gunmaker gets no more custom than an atheistical one; besides, Schaunard did not obtrude his religious opinions after the fashion of his class, he was a good deal of a gentleman, and he was accustomed to converse familiarly with emperors and kings.
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