He was a shabby concierge sharing in the tarnish2 of the shabby hotel which (for the information of those fortunate ones who only know of the Ritz, and the Meurice and other such-like palaces) is situated3 in the unaristocratic neighbourhood of the Halles Centrales.
“As it bears the Paris postmark, it must be the one which monsieur was expecting,” said he, detaching it from the clip on the keyboard.
The young Englishman sat on the worn cane5 seat in the little vestibule and read his letter. It ran:
Dear Martin,
I’ve been away. Otherwise I should have answered your note sooner. I’m delighted you’re in this God-forsaken city, but what brought you here in August, Heaven only knows. We must meet at once. I can’t ask you to my abode6, because I’ve only one room, one chair and a bed, and you would be shocked to sit on the chair while I sat on the bed, or to sit on the bed while I sat on the chair. And I couldn’t offer you anything but a cigarette (caporal, à quatre sous le paquet) and the fag end of a bottle of grenadine syrup7 and water. So let us dine together at the place where I take such meals as I can afford. Au Petit Cornichon, or as the snob8 of a proprietor9 yearns10 to call it, The “Restaurant Dufour.” It’s a beast of a hole in the Rue11 Baret off the Rue Bonaparte; but I don’t think either of us could run to the Café de Paris or Paillard’s and we’ll have it all to ourselves. Meet me there at seven.
Yours sincerely,
Corinna Hastings.
Martin Overshaw rose and addressed the concierge.
“Where is the Rue Bonaparte?”
The concierge informed him.
“I am going to dine with a lady at a restaurant called the Petit Cornichon. Do you think I had better wear evening dress?”
The concierge was perplexed12. The majority of the British frequenters of the hotel, when they did not dine in gangs at the table d’h?te, went out to dinner in flannels13 or knickerbockers, and wore cloth caps, and looked upon the language of the country as an incomprehensible joke. But here was a young Englishman of a puzzling type who spoke14 perfect French with a strange purity of accent, in spite of his abysmal15 ignorance of Paris, and talked about dressing16 for dinner.
“I will ask Monsieur Bocardon,” said he.
Monsieur Bocardon, the manager, a fat, greasy17 Proven?al, who sat over a ledger18 in the cramped19 bureau, leaned back in his chair and threw out his hands.
“Evening dress in a little restaurant of the quartier. Mais non! They would look at you through the windows. There would be a crowd. It would be an affair of the police.”
Martin Overshaw smiled. “Merci, monsieur,” said he. “But as you may have already guessed, I am new to Paris and Paris ways.”
“That doesn’t matter,” replied Monsieur Bocardon graciously. “Paris isn’t France. We of the south—I am from N?mes—care that for Paris——” he snapped his fingers. “Monsieur knows the Midi?”
“It is my first visit to France,” said Martin.
“Mais comment donc? You speak French like a Frenchman.”
“My mother was a Swiss,” replied Martin ingenuously20. “And I lived all my boyhood in Switzerland—in the Canton de Vaud. French is my mother tongue, and I have been teaching it in England ever since.”
“Aha! Monsieur is professeur?” Monsieur Bocardon asked politely.
“Yes, professeur,” said Martin, conscious for the first time in his life of the absurd dignity of the French title. It appealed to a latent sense of humour and he smiled wryly21. Yes. He was a Professor—had been for the last ten years, at Margett’s Universal College, Hickney Heath; a professor engaged in cramming22 large classes of tradesmen’s children, both youths and maidens23, with such tricksters’ command of French grammar and vocabulary as would enable them to obtain high marks in the stereotyped24 examinations for humble25 positions in the Public and semi-public services. He had reduced the necessary instruction to an exact science. He had carried hundreds of pupils through their examinations with flying colours; but he had never taught a single human being to speak thirty consecutive26 coherent words of French or to read and enjoy a French book. When he was very young and foolish he had tried to teach them the French speech as a living, organic mode of communication between human beings, with the result that his pupils soul-strung for examinations had revolted and the great Cyrus Margett, founder27 of the colossal28 and horrible Strasbourg goose factory known as Margett’s Universal College, threatened to sack him if he persisted in such damnable and unprofitable imbecility. So, being poor and unenterprising and having no reason to care whether a Mr. James Bagshawe or a Miss Susan Tulliver profited for more than the examination moment by his teaching, he had taught the dry examination-bones of the French language for ten years. And—“Monsieur est professeur,” from Monsieur Bocardon!
Then, as he turned away and began to mount the dingy29 stairs that led to his bedroom, it struck him that he was now only a professor in partibus. He was no longer a member of the professorial staff of Margett’s Universal College. The vast, original Margett had retired30 with fortune, liver and head deservedly swollen31 to county magnateship, leaving, for pecuniary32 considerations, the tremendous educational institution to a young successor, who having adopted as his watchword the comforting shibboleth33, “efficiency,” had dismissed all those professors who did not attain34 his standard of slickness. Martin Overshaw was not slick. The young apostle of efficiency had dismissed Martin Overshaw at a month’s notice, after ten years service. It was as though a practised gougeur or hand gorger35 of geese had been judged obsolescent36 and made to give place to one who gorged37 them by Hertzian rays. The new Olympian had flashed a glance, a couple of lightning questions at Martin and that was the end.
In truth, Martin Overshaw did not emanate38 efficiency like the eagle-faced men in the illustrated39 advertisements who undertake to teach you how to become a millionaire in a fortnight. He was of mild and modest demeanour; of somewhat shy and self-depreciatory attitude; a negligible personality in any assemblage of human beings; a man (according to the blasphemous40 saying) of no account. Of medium height, thin, black-haired, of sallow complexion41, he regarded the world unspeculatively out of clear grey eyes, that had grown rather tired. As he brushed his hair before the long strip of wardrobe mirror, it did not occur to him to criticise42 his reflected image. He made no claims to impeccability of costume. His linen43 and person were scrupulously44 clean; his sober suit comparatively new. But his appearance, though he knew it not, suffered from a masculine dowdiness45, indefinable, yet obvious. His ill-tied cravat46 had an inveterate47 quarrel with his ill-chosen collar and left the collar stud exposed, and innocent of sumptuary crime he allowed his socks to ruck over his ankles. . . . Once he had grown a full black beard, full in the barber’s sense, but dejectedly straggling to the commonplace eye of a landlady48’s daughter who had goaded49 him into a tepid50 flirtation51. To please the nymph long since married to a virtuous52 plumber53 whom Martin himself had called in to make his bath a going concern, he had divested54 himself of the offending excrement55 and contented56 himself thenceforward with a poor little undistinguished moustache. A very ordinary, unarresting young man was Martin Overshaw. Yet, in his simple, apologetic way—exempli gratia, when he smiled with deferential57 confidence on the shabby concierge and the greasy Monsieur Bocardon—he carried with him an air of good-breeding, a disarming58, sensitiveness of manner which commanded the respect, contemptuous though it might have sometimes been, of coarser natures. A long, thin, straight nose with delicate nostrils59, the only noticeable feature of his face, may have had something to do with this impression of refinement60. Much might be written on noses. The Great Master of Noseology, Lawrence Sterne, did but broach61 the subject. On account, perhaps, of a long head terminating in a long blunt chin, and a mild patience of expression, he bore at Margett’s Universal College the traditional sobriquet62 of “Cab-horse.”
The cab-horse, however, was now turned out to grass—in August Paris. He had been there three days and his head swam with the wonder of it. As he walked along the indicated route to the Petit Cornichon in the airless dark, he felt the thrill of freedom and of romance. Down the Boulevard Sébastopol he went, past the Tour Saint Jacques, through the Place du Chatelet over the Pont au Change and across the ?le de la Cité to the Boulevard Saint Michel, and turned to the right along the Boulevard Saint Germain until he came to the Rue Bonaparte and his destination. It was the sweltering cool of the evening. Paris sat out of doors, at cafés, at gateways63 in shirt sleeves and loosened bodices, at shop fronts, at dusty tables before humble restaurants. Pedestrians64 walked languidly in quest of ultimate seats. In the wide thoroughfares the omnibuses went their accustomed route; but motor-cabs whizzed unfrequent for lack of custom—they who could afford to ride in taxi-autos on the rive gauche65 were far away in cooler regions—and the old horses of crawling fiacres hung stagnant66 heads. Only the stale dregs of Paris remained in the Boul’ Mich. Yet it was Fairyland to the emancipated67 professor in partibus who paused here and there to catch the odd phrases of his mother tongue which struck his ears with delicious unfamiliarity68. Paris, too, that close, sultry evening, smelled of unutterable things; but to Martin Overshaw it was the aroma69 of a Wonder City.
He found without difficulty the Café-Restaurant Dufour whose gilded70 style and title eclipsed the modest sign of the “Petit Cornichon” prudently71 allowed to remain in porcelain72 letters on the glass of door and windows. Under the ?gis, as it were, of the poor “little gherkin” and independent of the magnificent Dufour establishment, was the announcement displayed: “Déjeuners 1 fr. 50. D?ners 2 fr. Vin Compris.” The ground floor was a small café, newly decorated with fresco73 panels of generously unclad ladies dropping roses on goat-legged gentlemen: symptoms of the progressive mind of the ambitious Monsieur Dufour. Only two tables were occupied—by ruddy-faced provincials74 engaged over coffee and dominoes. To Martin, standing75 embarrassed, came a pallid76 waiter.
“Monsieur désire?”
“Le Restaurant.”
He pointed78 to a meagre staircase on the left-hand side. Martin ascended79 and found himself alone in a ghostly-tabled room. From a doorway80 emerged another pallid waiter, who also addressed him with the enquiry: “Monsieur désire?”—but the enquiry was modulated81 with a certain subtle inflection of surprise and curiosity.
“I am expecting a lady,” said Martin.
“Bien, monsieur. A table for two? Voici.”
“I should like this one by the window,” said Martin. The room being on the entresol, the ceiling was low and the place reeked83 with reproachful reminders84 of long-forgotten one-franc-fifty and two-franc meals.
“I am sorry, Monsieur,” replied the waiter, “but this table is reserved by a lady who takes here all her repasts. Monsieur can see that it is so by the half-finished bottle of mineral water.”
He held up the bottle of Evian in token of his veracity85. Scrawled86 in pencil across the label ran the inscription87, “Mlle. Hastings.”
“Mademoiselle Hastings!” cried Martin. “Why, that is the lady I am expecting.”
The waiter smiled copiously88. Monsieur was a friend of Miss Hastings? Then it was a different matter. Mademoiselle said she would be back to-night and that was why her bottle of Evian had been preserved for her. She was the only one left of the enormous clientèle of the restaurant. It was a restaurant of students. In the students’ season, not a table for the chance comer. All engaged. The students paid so much per week or per month for nourishment89. It really was a pension, enfin, for board without lodging90. When the students were away from Paris the restaurant was kept open at a loss; not a very great loss, for in Paris one knew how to accommodate oneself to circumstance. Good provincials and English tourists sometimes wandered in. One always then indicated the decorations, real masterpieces some of them. . . . Only a day or two ago an American traveller had taken photographs. If Monsieur would deign91 to look round . . .
Martin deigned92. Drawings in charcoal93 and crayon on the distempered walls, caricatures, bold nudes94, bars of music, bits of satiric95 verse, flowing signatures, bore evidence of the passage of many generations of students.
“It amuses them,” said the waiter, “and gives the place a character.”
He was pointing out the masterpieces when a young voice by the door sang out:
“Hallo, Martin!”
Martin turned and met the welcoming eyes of Corinna Hastings, fair-haired, slender, neatly96 dressed in blue serge coat and skirt and a cheap little hat to which a long pheasant’s feather gave a touch of bravado97.
“You’re a real Godsend,” she declared. “I was thinking of throwing myself into the river, only there would have been no one on the deserted98 bridge to fish me out again. I am the last creature left in Paris.”
“I am more than lucky then to find you, Corinna,” said Martin. “For you’re the only person in Paris that I know.”
“How did you find my address?”
“I went down to Wendlebury——”
“Then you saw them all?” said Corinna, as they took their seats at the window-table. “Father and mother and Bessie and Joan and Ada, etcetera, etcetera down to the new baby. The new baby makes ten of us alive—really he’s the fourteenth. I wonder how many more there are going to be?”
“I shouldn’t think there would be any more,” replied Martin gravely.
Corinna burst out laughing.
“What on earth can you know about it?”
The satirical challenge brought a flush to Martin’s sallow cheek. What did he know in fact of the very intimate concerns of the Reverend Thomas Hastings and his wife?
“I’m afraid they find it hard to make both ends meet, as it is,” he explained.
“Yet I suppose they all flourish as usual—playing tennis and golf and selling at bazaars99 and quarrelling over curates?”
“They all seem pretty happy,” said Martin, not overpleased at his companion’s airy treatment of her family. He, himself, the loneliest of men, had found grateful warmth among the noisy, good-hearted crew of girls. It hurt him to hear them contemptuously spoken of.
“It was the first time you went down since——!” she paused.
“Since my mother died? Yes. She died early in May, you know.”
He nodded and looked out of window at the houses opposite. That was why he was in Paris. For the last ten years, ever since his father’s death had hurried him away from Cambridge, after a term or two, into the wide world of struggle for a living, he had spent all his days of freedom in the little Kentish town. And these days were few. There were no long luxurious101 vacations at Margett’s Universal College, such as there are at ordinary colleges and schools. The grind went on all the year round, and the staff had but scanty102 holidays. Such as they were he passed them at his mother’s tiny villa103. His father had given up the chaplaincy in Switzerland, where he had married and where Martin had been born, to become Vicar of Wendlebury, and Mr. Hastings was his successor. Mrs. Overshaw, with her phlegmatic104 temperament105, had taken root in Wendlebury and there Martin had visited her and there he had been received into the intimacy106 of the Hastings family and there she had died; and now that the little villa was empty and Martin had no place outside London to lay his leisured head, he had satisfied the dream of his life and come to Paris. But even in this satisfaction there was pain. What was Paris compared with the kind touch of that vanished hand? He sighed. He was a simple soul in spite of his thirty years.
The waiter roused him from his sad reflections by bringing the soup and a bottle of thin red wine. Conscious of food and drink and a female companion of prepossessing exterior107, Martin’s face brightened.
“It’s so jolly of them in Paris to throw in wine like this,” said he.
“I only hope you can drink the stuff,” remarked Corinna. “We call it tord-boyau.”
“It’s a rare treat,” said Martin. “I can’t afford wine in England, and the soup is delicious. Somehow no English landlady ever thinks of making it.”
“England is a beast of a place,” said Corinna.
“Yet in your letter you called Paris a God-forsaken city.”
“So it is in August. The schools are closed. Not a studio is open. Every single student has cleared out and there’s nothing in the world to do.”
“I’ve found heaps to do,” said Martin.
“The Pantheon and Notre Dame108 and the Folies Bergère,” said Corinna. “There’s also the Eiffel Tower. Imagine a three years’ art-student finding fun on the Eiffel Tower!”
“Then why haven’t you gone home this August as usual?” asked Martin.
Corinna knitted her brows. “That’s another story,” she replied shortly.
“I beg your pardon. I didn’t mean to be impertinent,” said Martin.
She laughed. “Don’t be silly—you think wallowing in the family trough is the height of bliss109. It isn’t. I would sooner starve than go back. At any rate I should be myself, a separate entity110, an individual. Oh, that being merely a bit of clotted111 family! How I should hate it!”
“But you would return to Paris in the autumn,” said Martin.
Again she frowned and broke her bread impatiently. All that was another story. “But never mind about me. Tell me about yourself, Martin. Perhaps we may fix up something merry to do together. Père la Chaise or the Tomb of Napoleon. How long are you staying in Paris?”
“I can only afford a week—I’ve already had three days. I must look out for another billet as soon as possible.”
“Another billet?”
Her question reminded him that she was ignorant of his novel position as professor in partibus. He explained, over the b?uf flammande. Corinna putting the “other story” of her own trouble aside listened sympathetically. All Paris art-students must learn to do that; otherwise who would listen sympathetically to them? And all art-students want a prodigious112 amount of sympathy, so uniquely constituted is each in genius and temperament.
“You can’t go back to that dog’s life,” she said, after a while. “You must get a post in a good public-school.”
Martin sighed. “Why not in the Kingdom of Heaven? It’s just as possible. Heads of Public Schools don’t engage as masters men who haven’t a degree and have hacked113 out their youth in low-class institutions like Margett’s. I know only too well. To have been at Margett’s damns me utterly114 with the public-schools. I must find another Margett’s!”
“Why don’t you do something else?” asked the girl.
“What else in the world can I do? You know very well what happened to me. My poor old father was just able to send me to Cambridge because I had a good scholarship. When he died there was nothing to supplement the scholarship which wasn’t enough to keep me at the University. I had to go down. My mother had nothing but my father’s life insurance money—a thousand pounds—and twenty pounds a year from the Freemasons. When she wrote to her relations about her distress115, what do you think my damned set of Swiss uncles and aunts and cousins sent her? Two hundred francs! Eight pounds! And they’re all rolling in money got out of the English. I had to find work at once to support us both. My only equipment was a knowledge of French. I got a post at Margett’s through a scholastic116 agency. I thought it a miracle. When the letter came accepting my application I didn’t sleep all night. I remained there till a week or so ago, working twelve hours a day all the year round. I don’t say I had classes for twelve hours,” he admitted, conscientiously117, “but when you see about a couple of hundred pupils a day and they all do written work which needs correcting, you’ll find you have as much work in class as out of class. Last night I dreamed I was confronted with a pile of exercise books eight feet high.”
“It’s a dog’s life,” Corinna repeated.
“It is,” said Martin. “Mais que veux-tu, ma pauvre Corinne. I detest118 it as much as one can detest anything. If even I was a successful teacher—passe encore. But I doubt whether I have taught anybody even the régime du participe passé save as a mathematical formula. It’s heart-rending. It has turned me into a brainless, soulless, heartless, bloodless machine.”
For a moment or two the glamour119 of the Parisian meal faded away. He beheld120 himself—as he had wofully done in intervals121 between the raptures122 of the past few days—an anxious and despairing young man: terribly anxious to obtain another abhorred123 teachership, yet desperate at the prospect124 of lifelong, ineffectual drudgery125. Corinna, her elbows on the table, poising126 in her hand a teaspoonful127 of tepid strawberry ice, regarded him earnestly.
“I wish I were a man,” she declared.
“What would you do?”
“I would take life by the throat and choke something big out of it,” she cried dramatically.
“Probably an ocean of tears or a Sahara of despair,” said a voice from the door.
Both turned sharply. The speaker was a middle-aged130 man of a presence at once commanding and subservient131. He had a shock of greyish hair brushed back from the forehead and terminating above the collar in a fashion suggestive of the late Abbé Liszt. His clean-shaven face was broad and massive; the features large: eyes grey and prominent; the mouth loose and fleshy. Many lines marked it, most noticeable of all a deep, vertical132 furrow133 between the brows. He was dressed, somewhat shabbily, in a black frock coat suit and wore the white tie of the French attorney. His voice was curiously134 musical.
“Good Lord, Fortinbras, how you startled me!” exclaimed Corinna.
“I couldn’t help it,” said he, coming forward. “When you turn the Petit Cornichon into the stage of the Odéon, what can I do but give you the reply? I came here to find our good friend Widdrington.”
“Widdrington went back to England this morning,” she announced.
“That’s a pity. I had good news for him. I have arranged his little affair. He should be here to profit by it. I love impulsiveness135 in youth,” he said addressing himself to Martin, “when it proceeds from noble ardour; but when it marks the feather-headed irresponsibility of the idiot, I cannot deprecate it too strongly.”
Challenged, as it were, for a response, “I cordially agree with you, sir,” said Martin.
“You two ought to know one another,” said Corinna. “This is my friend, Mr. Overshaw—Martin, let me introduce you to Mr. Daniel Fortinbras, Marchand de Bonheur.”
Fortinbras extended a soft white hand and holding Martin’s benevolently136:
“I wish you would provide me with some,” said Martin, laughingly.
“And so do I,” said Corinna.
Fortinbras drew a chair to the table and sat down.
“My fee,” said he, “is five francs each, paid in advance.”
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