Volume VI Part 10 (1/2)
The other replied, sih:
”No, my name is Thomas It is in the office that they have nicknamed me Saint-Potin”
Duroy, as he paid for the drinks, observed: ”But it see on, and that we have two noble foreigners to call on”
Saint-Potin began to laugh ”You are still green So you fancy I a to ask the Chinese and the Hindoo what they think of England? As if I did not know better than theht to think in order to please the readers of the _Vie Francaise_ I have already interviewed five hundred of these Chinese, Persians, Hindoos, Chilians, japanese, and others They all reply the sa to me I have only to take my article on the last coed, though, is their appearance, their nae, and their suite Oh! on that point it does not do to aro_ or the _Gaulois_ But on these matters the hall porters at the Hotel Bristol and the Hotel Continental will put ar as alk there Five francs cab hire to charge to the paper That is how one sets about it, my dear fellohen one is practically inclined”
”Itdecent to be a reporter under these circumstances,” said Duroy
The journalist replied raphs, on account of the veiled advertise down the boulevards towards the Madeleine Saint-Potin suddenly observed to his co else to do, I shall not need you in any way”
Duroy shook hands and left hi worried hian to think He stored his mind with ideas, reflections, opinions, and anecdotes as he walked along, and went as far as the end of the Avenue des Champs Elysees, where only a few strollers were to be seen, the heat having caused Paris to be evacuated
Having dined at a wine shop near the Arc de Trio the outer boulevards and sat down at his table to work But as soon as he had the sheet of blank paper before his eyes, all the materials that he had accuh his brain had evaporated He tried to seize on fragments of his recollections and to retain them, but they escaped him as fast as he laid hold of theether pell-mell, and he did not kno to clothe and present thein with
After an hour of atte phrases that had no continuation, he said to hih up in the business I must have another lesson” And all at once the prospect of anotherand intimate _tete-a-tete_ so cordial and so pleasant, made him quiver with desire He went to bed in a hurry, al all at once
He did not get up the next day till so in advance the pleasure of this visit
It was past ten when he rang his friend's bell
The ed at his work”
Duroy had not thought that the husband : ”Tell hi i five minutes he was shown into the study in which he had passed such a pleasantIn the chair he had occupied Forestier was now seated writing, in a dressing-gown and slippers and with a little Scotch bonnet on his head, while his wife in the saarette inon the threshold,your pardon; I a his face towards hirowled: ”What is it you want now? Be quick; we are pressed for ti; I beg your pardon”
But Forestier, growing angry, exclai it all, don't waste time about it; you have not forced your way in just for the sake of wishi+ng us good-reatly perturbed, made up his e my article--and you were--so--so kind last time--that I hoped--that I ventured to come--”
Forestier cut hi to do your work, and that all you have to do is to call on the cashi+er at the end of the ood”
The young woue s the irony of her thoughts
Duroy, colored up, staht--” then suddenly, and in a clear voice, he went on: ”I beg your pardon a thousand ti youarticle you produced for me yesterday” He bowed, remarked to Charles: ”I shall be at the office at three,” and went out
He walked ho: ”Well, I will do it all alone, and they shall see--”
Scarcely had he got in than, excited by anger, he began to write He continued the adventure began by Mada up details of catch-penny ro incidents, and inflated descriptions, with the style of a schoolboy and the phraseology of the barrack-room
Within an hour he had finished an article which was a chaos of nonsense, and took it with every assurance to the _Vie Francaise_