The Support of the Family (Classic Reprint) (книга)

Excerpt from The Support of the Family

A Majestic attendant passed, carrying a lamp. Victor Eudeline coughed to keep himself in countenance, and requested him to be kind enough to remind the principal of his presence. The man, without turning, nodded his head affirmatively and disappeared in the darkness beyond a folding door.

Seated on the moleskin cover of a wooden chest, the petitioner had been waiting above an hour in that long waiting-room peculiar to the Parisian lycee, with its red tiled floor with the paint rubbed off, and its walls covered with a huge varnished geological chart. The daylight was fading - it was late in the spring - and through the waiting-room window he could see tall rectangles of gaslight in long lines on all the floors looking on that darkening courtyard, which, to him, overflowed with triumphant memories.

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