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THE BREWERY ON THE RUE BLONDEL.
After his marriage Risler had given up the brewery.

Sidonie would have been glad to have him leave the house in the evening for a fashionable club, a resort of wealthy, well-dressed men; but the idea of his returning, amid clouds of pipe-smoke, to his friends of earlier days, Sigismond, Delobelle, and her own father, humiliated her and made her unhappy.

So he ceased to frequent the place; and that was something of a sacrifice.

It was almost a glimpse of his native country, that brewery situated in a remote corner of Paris.