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Chapter 1At nine o'clock in the evening the body of the house at the Theatres des Varietes was still all but empty. A few individuals, it is true, were sitting quietly waiting in the balcony and stalls, but these were lost, as it were, among the ranges of seats whose coverings of cardinal velvet loomed in the subdued light of the dimly burning luster. A shadow enveloped the great red splash of the curtain, and not a sound came from the stage, the unlit footlights,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the scattered desks of the orchestra. It was only high overhead in the third gallery, round the domed ceiling where nude females and children flew in heavens which had turned green in the gaslight, that calls and laughter were audible above a continuous hubbub of voices,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and heads in women's and workmen's caps were ranged, row above row,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], under the wide-vaulted bays with their gilt-surrounding adornments. Every few seconds an attendant would make her appearance, bustling along with tickets in her hand and piloting in front of her a gentleman and a lady, who took their seats,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], he in his evening dress, she sitting slim and undulant beside him while her eyes wandered slowly round the house.Two young men appeared in the stalls; they kept standing and looked about them."Didn't I say so, Hector?" cried the elder of the two, a tall fellow with little black mustaches. "We're too early! You might quite well have allowed me to finish my cigar."An attendant was passing."Oh, Monsieur Fauchery," she said familiarly, "it won't begi
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