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neously revealed their
origin; Fran?oise knew they had escaped Albertine through emotion and understanding without
seeing, went off muttering in her patois, the word “poutana“. Much later on, when Bloch having
become the father of a family, married one of his daughters to a Catholic, an ill-bred person
informed her that he had heard she was the daughter of a Jew and asked her what her name had
been. The young woman who had been Miss Bloch since her birth,rakuten202, answered,shop18.html, pronouncing Bloch
in the German fashion as the Duc de Guermantes might have done, that is, pronouncing the Ch not
like “K” but with the Germanic “ch”.

To go back to the scene of the hotel, (into which the two Russians had finally decided to penetrate
—“after all we don’t care a damn”) the patron had not yet come back when Jupien entered and
rated them for talking too loud, saying that the neighbours would complain. But he stood
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dumbfounded on seeing me. “Get out all of you this instant!” he cried,kakaku215. Immediately all of them
jumped up, whereupon I said: “It would be better if these young men stayed here and I went
outside with you a moment.” He followed me, much troubled, and I explained to him why I had
come. One could hear customers asking the patron if he could not introduce them to a footman, a
choir boy, a negro chauffeur. All professions interested these old madmen; soldiers of all arms and
the allies of all nations. Some especially favoured Canadians, feeling the charm of their accent
which was so slight that they did not know whether it was of old France or of England. On
account of their kilts and because of the lacustrine dreams associated with such lusts,shop280, Scotchmen
were at a premium, and as every mania owes its peculiar character,shop445.html, if not its aggravation, to
circumstances,rakuten214, an old man, whose prurient cravings had all been sated, demanded with insistence
to be made acquainted with a mutilated soldier,watch142. Steps were heard on the stairs,hat287.html. With the
indiscretion which was natural to him,index.html, Jupien could not resist telling me it was the Baron who was
coming down, that he must not on any account see me but if I would enter the little room
contiguous to the passage where the young men were,kakaku256.html, he would open the shutter, a trick he had
invented for the Baron to see and hear without being seen and which would now operate in my
favour against him. “Only don’t make a noise,” he said. And half pushing me into the darkness, he
left me. Moreover,shop265.html, he had no other room to offer me,watch62.html, his hotel, in spite of the war, being full. The
room I had just left had been taken by the Vicomte de Courvoisier who, having been able to leave
the Red Cross at X—— for two days,index, had come to amuse himself for an hour in Paris before
returning to the Chateau de Courvoisier where he would tell the Vicomtesse he had been unable to
catch the last train. He had no notion that M,kakaku29.html. de Charlus was only a few yards away from him and
the former had as little, never having encountered his cousin at Jupien’s house, the latter being
ignorant of the carefully disguised identity of the Vicomte. The Baron soon came in, walking with
some difficulty on account of his bruises which he must, nevertheless, have got used to. Although
his debauch was finished and he was only going in to give Maurice the money he owed him, he
directed a circular glance upon the young men gathered there which was at once tender and
inquisitive and evidently expected to have the pleasure of a quite platonic but amorously
prolonged chat with each of them. I noticed in all the lively frivolity he displayed towards the
harem by which he seemed almost intimidated, those twistings of the body and tossings of the
head, those sensitive glances I had noticed on the evening of his first arrival at La Raspelière,
graces inherited from one of his grandmothers whom I had not known and which, masked in
ordinary life by more virile expressions, were coquettishly displayed when he wanted to please an
inferior audience by appearing a grande dame. Jupien had recommended them to the goodwill of
the Baron by telling him they were hooligans of Belleville and that they would go to bed with their
own sisters for a louis. In actual fact,shop220.html, Jupien was both lying and telling the truth. Better and more
sensitive than he told the Baron they were, they did not belong to a class of miscreants. But those
who believed them so talked to them with entire good faith as if these terrible fellows were doing
the same. However,shop217.html, much a sadist may believe he is with an assassin, his own pure sadist soul is
not on that account changed and he is hypnotised by the lies of these fellows who aren’t in the
least assassins but who,watch301.html, wanting to turn an easy penny, wordily bring their father, their mother or
their sister to life and kill them again, turn and turn about, because they get interrupted in their
conversation with the customer they are trying to please,hat126. The customer is bewildered in his
simplicity and, in his absurd conception of the guilty gigolo revelling in mass-murders, is
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astounded at the culprit’s lies and contradictions. All of them seemed to know M. de Charlus who
stayed some time talking to each of them in what he thought was his vernacular, from pretentious
affectation of local colour and also from the sadistic pleasure of mixing himself up in a crapulous
life. “It’s disgusting,” he said, “I saw you in front of Olympia with two street-women, just to get
some coppers out of them,watch3.html. That’s a nice way of deceiving me.” Happily for the young man who
was thus addressed, he had no time to declare that he had never accepted coppers from a woman
which would have diminished the excitement of M. de Charlus and he reserved his protest for the
end of the latter’s sentence, replying, “Oh,watch158.html, no!