They looked more prosperous, were more amiable, and acted more as other people.
True, there was much long hair, for that is a disease hard to shake off; but when it did occur, it was well combed and oiled. And there were many flat-brimmed "plug" hats, as well as collars,—clean ones, too, an exceptional thing in Bohemia, laundering being expensive. But the poverty-haunted Bohemians in the Soleil d'Or are more picturesque. That, however, is in the Latin Quarter: anything exceptional may be expected at Montmartre.
When we had finished our coffee we approached the patronne behind the bar, and bought billets for the Salle des Poètes at two francs each. This was a large room crowded with enraptured listeners to Legay, who was at that moment rendering his song.
LES CLOCHES.
"Les cloches Catholiques,
Du haut de leur beffroi,
Voyaient avec effroi
La résurrection des Grandes Républiques.
Les cloches rêvaient,