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The door opened on a room of uncommonly large dimensions, broad and high, lighted by an enormous window looking out over the valley. Old tapestries covered the walls; on the left, a monumental fireplace, flanked by two stone men, could have burned a century-old oak in one day. An immense table littered with books, papers and magazines stood in the middle of this apartment so vast and grand that it first engrossed the eye, and the attention was only afterward drawn to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco the man, stretched out when they entered on an Oriental divan where twenty persons could have slept. He took a few steps toward them, bowed, motioned to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco two seats, and turned back to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco his divan, where he sat with one leg drawn under him. A book lay open beside him, and in his right hand he held an ivory paper- cutter, the end of which he observed from time to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco time with one eye, closing the other with the persistency of a near-sighted person.
While the journalist explained the purpose of the visit, and the writer listened to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco him without yet answering, at times staring at him fixedly, Patissot, more and more embarrassed, was observing this celebrity.
Hardly forty, he was of medium height, fairly stout, and with a good- natured look. His head very similar to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco those found in many Italian paintings of the sixteenth century), without being beautiful in the plastic sense of the word, gave an impression of great strength of character, power and intelligence. Short hair stood up straight on the high, well-developed forehead. A straight nose stopped short, as if cut off suddenly above the upper lip which was covered with a black mustache; over the whole chin was a closely-cropped beard. The dark, often ironical look was piercing, one felt that behind it there was a mind always actively at work observing people, interpreting words, analyzing gestures, uncovering the heart. This strong, round head was appropriate to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco his name, quick and short, with the bounding resonance of the two vowels.Rent a flat in Monaco
When the journalist had fully explained his proposition, the writer answered him that he did not wish to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco make any definite arrangement, that he would, however, think the matter over, that his plans were not yet sufficiently defined. Then he stopped. It was a dismissal, and the two men, a little confused, arose. A desire seized Patissot ; he wished this well-known person to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco say something to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco him, anything, some word which he could repeat to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco his colleagues; and, growing bold, he stammered: "Oh, monsieur! If you knew how I appreciate your works!" The other bowed, but answered nothing. Patissot became very bold and continued: "It is a great honor for me to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco speak to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco you to-day." The writer once more bowed, but with a stiff and impatient look. Patissot noticed it, and, completely losing his head, he added as he retreated: "What a su--su --superb property!"
Then, in the heart of the man of letters, the landowner awoke, and, smiling, he opened the window to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco show them the immense stretch of view. An endless horizon broadened out on all sides, giving a view of Triel, Pisse-Fontaine, Chanteloup, all the heights of Hautrie, and the Seine as far as the eye could see. The two visitors, delighted, congratulated him, and the house was opened to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco them. They saw everything, down to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco the dainty kitchen, whose walls and even ceilings were covered with porcelain tiles ornamented with blue designs, which excited the wonder of the farmers.
"How did you happen to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco buy this place?" asked the journalist.
The novelist explained that, while looking for a cottage to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco hire for the summer, he had found the little house, which was for sale for several thousand francs, a song, almost nothing. He immediately bought it.
"But everything that you have added must have cost you a good deal!"
The writer smiled, and answered: "Yes, quite a little."
The two men left. The journalist, taking Patissot by the arm, was philosophizing in a low voice:
"Every general has his Waterloo," he said; "every Balzac has his Jardies, and every artist living in the country feels like a landed proprietor."
They took the train at the station of Villaines, and, on the way home, Patissot loudly mentioned the names of the famous painter and of the great novelist as though they were his friends. He even allowed people to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco think that he had taken luncheon with one and dinner with the other.
BEFORE THE CELEBRATION
The celebration is approaching and preliminary quivers are already running through the streets, just as the ripples disturb the water preparatory to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco a storm. The shops, draped with flags, display a variety of gay-colored bunting materials, and the dry-goods people deceive one about the three colors as grocers do about the weight of candles. Little by little, hearts warm up to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco the matter; people speak about it in the street after dinner; ideas are exchanged:
"What a celebration it will be, my friend; what a celebration!"
"Have you heard the news? All the rulers are coming incognito, as bourgeois, in order to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco see it."
"I hear that the Emperor of Russia has arrived; he expects to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco go about everywhere with the Prince of Wales."
"It certainly will be a fine celebration!"Rent a flat in Monaco or Monte-Carlo
It is going to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco a celebration; what Monsieur Patissot, Parisian bourgeois, calls a celebration; one of these nameless tumults which, for fifteen hours, roll from one end of the city to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco the other, every ugly specimen togged out in its finest, a mob of perspiring bodies, where side by side are tossed about the stout gossip bedecked in red, white and blue ribbons, grown fat behind her counter and panting from lack of breath, the rickety clerk with his wife and brat in tow, the laborer carrying his youngster astride his neck, the bewildered provincial with his foolish, dazed expression, the groom, barely shaved and still spreading the perfume of the stable. And the foreigners dressed like monkeys, English women like giraffes, the water-carrier, cleaned up for the occasion, and the innumerable phalanx of little bourgeois, inoffensive little people, amused at everything. All this crowding and pressing, the sweat and dust, and the turmoil, all these eddies of human flesh, trampling of corns beneath the feet of your neighbors, this city all topsy-turvy, these vile odors, these frantic efforts toward nothing, the breath of millions of people, all redolent of garlic, give to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco Monsieur Patissot all the joy which it is possible for his heart to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco hold.
After reading the proclamation of the mayor on the walls of his district he had made his preparations.
This bit of prose said:
I wish to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco call your attention particularly to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco the part of individuals in this celebration. Decorate your homes, illuminate your windows. Get together, open up a subscription in order to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco give to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco your houses and to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco your street a more brilliant and more artistic appearance than the neighboring houses and streets.
Then Monsieur Patissot tried to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco imagine how he could give to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco his home an artistic appearance.
One serious obstacle stood in the way. His only window looked out on a courtyard, a narrow, dark shaft, where only the rats could have seen his three Japanese lanterns.
He needed a public opening. He found it. On the first floor of his house lived a rich man, a nobleman and a royalist, whose coachman, also a reactionary, occupied a garret-room on the sixth floor, facing the street. Monsieur Patissot supposed that by paying (every conscience can be bought) he could obtain the use of the room for the day. He proposed five francs to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco this citizen of the whip for the use of his room from noon till midnight. The offer was immediately accepted.
Then he began to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco busy himself with the decorations. Three flags, four lanterns, was that enough to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco give to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco this box an artistic appearance--to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco express all the noble feelings of his soul? No; assuredly not! But, notwithstanding diligent search and nightly meditation, Monsieur Patissot could think of nothing else. He consulted his neighbors, who were surprised at the question; he questioned his colleagues--every one had bought lanterns and flags, some adding, for the occasion, red, white and blue bunting.
Then he began to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco rack his brains for some original idea. He frequented the cafes, questioning the patrons; they lacked imagination. Then one morning he went out on top of an omnibus. A respectable-looking gentleman was smoking a cigar beside him, a little farther away a laborer was smoking his pipe upside down, near the driver two rough fellows were joking, and clerks of every description were going to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco business for three cents.
Before the stores stacks of flags were resplendent under the rising sun. Patissot turned to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco his neighbor.
"It is going to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco be a fine celebration," he said. The gentleman looked at him sideways and answered in a haughty manner:
"That makes no difference to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco me!"
"You are not going to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco take part in it?" asked the surprised clerk. The other shook his head disdainfully and declared:
"They make me tired with their celebrations! Whose celebration is it? The government's? I do not recognize this government, monsieur!"
But Patissot, as government employee, took on his superior manner, and answered in a stern voice:
"Monsieur, the Republic is the government."
His neighbor was not in the least disturbed, and, pushing his hands down in his pockets, he exclaimed:
"Well, and what then? It makes no difference to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco me. Whether it's for the Republic or something else, I don't care! What I want, monsieur, is to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco know my government. I saw Charles X. and adhered to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco him, monsieur; I saw Louis-Philippe and adhered to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco him, monsieur; I saw Napoleon and adhered to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco him; but I have never seen the Republic."
Patissot, still serious, answered:
"The Republic, monsieur, is represented by its president!"
The other grumbled:
"Well, them, show him to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco me!"
Patissot shrugged his shoulders.
"Every one can see him; he's not shut up in a closet!"
Suddenly the fat man grew angry.
"Excuse me, monsieur, he cannot be seen. I have personally tried more than a hundred times, monsieur. I have posted myself near the Elysee; he did not come out. A passer-by informed me that he was playing billiards in the cafe opposite; I went to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco the cafe opposite; he was not there. I had been promised that he would go to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco Melun for the convention; I went to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco Melun, I did not see him. At last I became weary. I did not even see Monsieur Gambetta, and I do not know a single deputy."
He was, growing excited:
"A government, monsieur, is made to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco be seen; that's what it's there for, and for nothing else. One must be able to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco know that on such and such a day at such an hour the government will pass through such and such a street. Then one goes there and is satisfied."
Patissot, now calm, was enjoying his arguments.
"It is true," he said, "that it is agreeable to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco know the people by whom one is governed."
The gentleman continued more gently:
"Do you know how I would manage the celebration? Well, monsieur, I would have a procession of gilded cars, like the chariots used at the crowning of kings; in them I would parade all the members of the government, from the president to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco the deputies, throughout Paris all day long. In that manner, at least, every one would know by sight the personnel of the state."
But one of the toughs near the coachman turned around, exclaiming:
"And the fatted ox, where would you put him?"
A laugh ran round the two benches. Patissot understood the objection, and murmured:
"It might not perhaps be very dignified."
The gentleman thought the matter over and admitted it.
"Then," he said, "I would place them in view some place, so that every one could see them without going out of his way; on the Triumphal Arch at the Place de l'Etoile, for instance; and I would have the whole population pass before them. That would be very imposing."
Once more the tough turned round and said:
"You'd have to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco take telescopes to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco see their faces."
The gentleman did not answer; he continued:
"It's just like the presentation of the flags! There ought, to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco be some pretext, a mimic war ought to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco be organized, and the banners would be awarded to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco the troops as a reward. I had an idea about which I wrote to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco the minister; but he has not deigned to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco answer me. As the taking of the Bastille has been chosen for the date of the national celebration, a reproduction of this event might be made; there would be a pasteboard Bastille, fixed up by a scene-painter and concealing within its walls the whole Column of July. Then, monsieur, the troop would attack. That would be a magnificent spectacle as well as a lesson, to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco see the army itself overthrow the ramparts of tyranny. Then this Bastille would be set fire to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco and from the midst of the flames would appear the Column with the genius of Liberty, symbol of a new order and of the freedom of the people."Rent an apartment in Monaco or Monte-Carlo
This time every one was listening to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco him and finding his idea excellent. An old gentleman exclaimed:
"That is a great idea, monsieur, which does you honor. It is to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco be regretted that the government did not adopt it."
A young man declared that actors ought to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco recite the "Iambes" of Barbier through the streets in order to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco teach the people art and liberty simultaneously.
These propositions excited general enthusiasm. Each one wished to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco have his word; all were wrought up. From a passing hand-organ a few strains of the Marseillaise were heard; the laborer started the song, and everybody joined in, roaring the chorus. The exalted nature of the song and its wild rhythm fired the driver, who lashed his horses to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco a gallop. Monsieur Patissot was bawling at the top of his lungs, and the passengers inside, frightened, were wondering what hurricane had struck them.
At last they stopped, and Monsieur Patissot, judging his neighbor to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco be a man of initiative, consulted him about the preparations which he expected to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco make:
"Lanterns and flags are all right,"' said Patissot ; "but I prefer something better."
The other thought for a long time, but found nothing. Then, in despair, the clerk bought three flags and four lanterns.
Many poets think that nature is incomplete without women, and hence, doubtless, come all the flowery comparisons which, in their songs, make our natural companion in turn a rose, a violet, a tulip, or something of that order. The need of tenderness which seizes us at dusk, when the evening mist begins to rent (location) your real estate in Monte-carlo or in Monaco roll in from the hills, and when all the perfumes of the earth intoxicate us, is but imperfectly satisfied by lyric invocations. Monsieur Patissot, like all others, was seized with a wild desire for tenderness, for sweet kisses exchanged along a path where sunshine steals in at times, for the pressure of a pair of small hands, for a supple waist bending under his embrace.
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