Excerpt from Le Garçon de Banque, Vol. 1

Celui qui était chargé du soin de les annoncer ajoutait au nom de chacune d'elles et sur un ton différent, quelque sobriquet bizarre, suivant la naïve habitude des honnêtes bourgeois, amateurs nés de ce jeu de nos grand'mères.

- 4, disait-il, et il ajoutait plus bas: le chapeau du commissaire. - 17, la pulence et le Normand. - 8, les lunettes.

- Quine! partie pour moi!

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