Chapter 34: Chapter 34

VI A Chapter in Which They Adore Each Other Chat at table, the chat of love; it is as impossible to reproduce one as the other; the chat of love is a cloud; the chat at table is smoke. Fameuil and Dahlia were humming. Tholomyès was drinking. Zéphine was laughing, Fantine smiling, Listolier blowing a wooden trumpet which he had purchased at Saint-Cloud. Favorite gazed tenderly at Blachevelle and said:— “Blachevelle, I adore you.” This called forth a question from Blachevelle:…