Volume VI Part 11 (1/2)
”It in again whenever you please”
”To-day, if you like”
”Yes, I a”
”Good, but--” He hesitated, a little asha to do
”The fact is that this time I have not a penny; I have just co”
She looked hi a lie with the instinct and habit of a girl accustos ofto try on me”
He smiled in an embarrassed way ”If you will take ten francs, it is all I have left”
Shea fancy: ”What you please,eyes towards the young ly upon it
”Let us go and have a grenadine first of all,” she reether I should like to go to the opera like this, with you, to show you off And ill go hoirl's place It was broad day when he left, and the notion occurred to him to buy the _Vie Francaise_ He opened the paper with feverish hand His article was not there, and he stood on the footpath, anxiously running his eye down the printed colu what he was in search of A weight suddenly oppressed his heart, for after the fatigue of a night of love, this vexation caht of a disaster
He reached ho the office some hours later, he went on to see Monsieur Walter
”I was surprised at not seeing , sir,” said he
The ave it to your friend Forestier, and asked hih He did not think it up to the e, went out without saying a word, and abruptly entering his old coo in this arette with his back almost on the seat of his ar an article already comh speaking froht it poor, and told ain There it is”
And he pointed out the slips flattened out under a paperweight
Duroy, abashed, could find nothing to say in reply, and as he was putting his prose into his pocket, Forestier went on: ”To-day you ive a list of business errands and items of news to be attended to
Duroy went off without having been able to find the cutting reht back his article the next day It was returned to hi it still refused, he understood that he was trying to go ahead too fast, and that Forestier's hand alone could help hi more about the ”Recollections of a Chasseur d'Afrique,” pro since it was needful, and while awaiting soe his duties as a reporter
He learned to know the way behind the scenes in theatrical and political life; the waiting-rooms of statesmen and the lobby of the Chamber of Deputies; the irim looks of sleepy ushers He had continual relations with ents, princes, bullies, courtesans, ambassadors, bishops, panders, adventurers, men of fashi+on, card-sharpers, cab drivers, waiters, andbecome the interested yet indifferent friend of all these; confounding the theh having to see them every day at every hour, without any transition, and to speak with them all on the
same business of his own He compared himself to a man who had to drink off samples of every kind of wine one after the other, and ould soon be unable to tell Chateau Margaux froenteuil
He became in a short time a remarkable reporter, certain of his information, artful, swift, subtle, a real find for the paper, as was observed by Daddy Walter, who knehat newspaper ot only centimes a line in addition to his monthly screw of two hundred francs, and as life on the boulevards and in _cafes_ and restaurants is costly, he never had a halfpenny, and was disgusted with his poverty There is so some of his felloith their pockets full ofable to understand what secret methods they could make use of to procure this abundance He enviously suspected unknown and suspicious transactions, services rendered, a whole systereed to But it was necessary that he should penetrate the mystery, enter into the tacit partnershi+p,without hi, as he watched the trains go by froht to take