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Updated: June 28, 2025
"These are the things you want," said he. "I am an old campaigner in the wilds, so you will excuse me for specifying them. Go for your outfit where you will, but for your guns to Schaunard, for he is the best. Order all accounts to be sent in to my secretary, M. Pinchon. He will settle them. Your salary you can take how you will.
Malay krisses, double-handed Chinese execution swords; old pepper-pot revolvers, such as may still be found on the African coast; knob-kerries, assegais, steel-spiked balls swinging from whips of raw hide; weapons wild and savage and primitive as those with which Attila drove before him the hordes of the Huns, and modern weapons of to-day and yesterday; the big elephant gun which has been supplanted by the express rifle; the deadly magazine rifle, the latest products of Schaunard of the Rue de la Paix and Westley Richards of London.
"Have you had much experience amidst big game, and can you make out your own list of requirements, or shall I help you with my advice?" "I should be very glad of your advice. No, I have not had much experience in big-game shooting. I have shot bears, that's all " "Armand!" cried Schaunard, and a pale-faced young man came forward from the back part of the shop. "Open me this case."
Dating from this dinner, lobster ceased to be a myth to Schaunard, and he acquired a passion for that amphibian which was destined to increase to the verge of delirium. The four friends went forth from this splendid feast as intoxicated as on a day of vintage.
The attic, the studio, the restaurant, the café are the accepted symbols of Bohemia. What reader of Henri Murger's "Scenes de la Vie de Bohème" has ever forgotten the Café Momus, where the riotous behaviour of Marcel, Schaunard, Rodolphe, and Colline brought the proprietor to the verge of ruin?
Rodolphe sacrifices the manuscript of his tragedy to keep the fire going, and Marcel keeps the landlord at bay, until the arrival of Schaunard with an unexpected windfall of provisions raises the spirits of the company to the zenith of rapture. Three of the Bohemians go out to keep Christmas Eve at their favourite café, leaving Rodolphe to finish an article.
Schaunard made observations as well as telescopic sights and wind-gauges he had been making observation for sixty years he took almost as much interest in individual human beings as in rifles, and much more interest in Humanity than in God.
"Why, what on earth could you want with such an obsolete weapon as that?" "Tell me does this thing hit harder, gun for gun not weight for weight, mind you but gun for gun than that double-barrel you are holding in your hands?" "Oh, yes," said Schaunard, "it hits harder, just as a cannon would hit harder, but " "I'll have her," said Adams. "I've taken a fancy to her.
He took his way down the Rue de Rivoli and then to the Avenue Malakoff, and as he walked the face of the philosophic Schaunard faded from his mind and was replaced by the vision of Maxine Berselius. Opposites in the world of thought often awaken images one of the other, just because of the fact that they are opposites. Maxine was not at Trouville.
Despite what Stenhouse, Duthil, and Schaunard had said, Adams by this time inclined to a half-liking for Berselius; the man seemed so far from and unconscious of the little things of the world, so destitute of pettiness, that the half liking which always accompanies respect could not but find a place in Adams's mind.
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