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Simonne having wiped his mouth for him while Rose and Lucy were changing his plate, her act struck him as very pretty and, deigning at length to show contentment: "There, there, my daughter," he said, "that's as it should be. Women are made for that!" There was a slight reawakening, and conversation became general as they finished discussing some orange sherbet.
Simonne asked cheerfully if it was for her, but the porter woman did not vouchsafe an answer and only pointed her chin toward Nana's dressing room at the end of the passage. Oh, that Nana! They were loading her with flowers! Then when Mme Bron returned she handed a letter to Clarisse, who allowed a smothered oath to escape her. That beggar La Faloise again!
He spread it, and read, his bloodless lips compressed, his eyes narrowing to slits. "Let her in," he commanded sharply, and Simonne obeyed him without more ado. She admitted Charlotte, and left them alone together the avenger and her victim. For a moment each regarded the other. Marat beheld a handsome young woman, elegantly attired. But these things had no interest for the People's Friend.
After which Gaga had to carry off La Faloise, ill, sobbing like a child, calling after Clarisse, who had long since gone off with her two gentlemen. Simonne, too, had vanished. Indeed, none remained save Tatan, Lea and Maria, whom Labordette complaisantly took under his charge. "Oh, but I don't the least bit want to go to bed!" said Nana. "One ought to find something to do."
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