[Pierre and Jean by Guy de Maupassant]@TWC D-Link bookPierre and Jean CHAPTER IX 9/24
But she passed him again and again as she went to and fro, pattering her feet under her skirts with a smart little strut.
At last he rapped a coin on the table, and she hurried up. "What will you take, sir ?" She did not look at him; her mind was absorbed in calculations of the liquor she had served. "Well," said he, "this is a pretty way of greeting a friend." She fixed her eyes on his face.
"Ah!" said she hurriedly.
"Is it you? You are pretty well? But I have not a minute to-day.
A bock did you wish for ?" "Yes, a bock!" When she brought it he said: "I have come to say good-bye.
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