He would almost make the water pitchers laugh when he imitated the raw recruit with his fingers apart and his hat on the back of his head.

Directly after "The Volcano of Love," he burst out into "The Baroness de Follebiche," one of his greatest successes.

When he reached the third verse he turned towards Clemence and almost murmured it in a slow and voluptuous tone of voice: "The baroness had people there, Her sisters four, oh! rare surprise; And three were dark, and one was fair; Between them, eight bewitching eyes." Then the whole party, carried away, joined in the chorus.

The men beat time with their heels, whilst the ladies did the same with their knives against their glasses.

All of them singing at the top of their voices: "By Jingo! who on earth will pay A drink to the pa--to the pa--pa--?
By Jingo! who on earth will pay A drink to the pa--to the pa--tro--o--l ?" The panes of glass of the shop-front resounded, the singers' great volume of breath agitated the muslin curtains.