Madame Tellier's Establishment

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They used to go there every evening at about eleven o'clock, just like they went to the _cafe_. Six or eight of them used to meet there; they were always the same set, not fast men, but respectable tradesmen, and young men, in government or some other employ, and they used to drink their Chartreuse, and tease the girls, or else they would talk seriously with _Madame_, whom everybody respected, and then they used to go home at twelve o'clock. The younger men would sometimes stay the night.