All the great deals are arranged at the club, around the bouillotte table, and a man must go there or suffer the penalty of seeing his business fall off.

Claire innocently believed it all.

When her husband had gone, she felt sad for a moment.

She would have liked so much to keep him with her or to go out leaning on his arm, to seek enjoyment with him.

But the sight of the child, cooing in front of the fire and kicking her little pink feet while she was being undressed, speedily soothed the mother.
Then the eloquent word "business," the merchant's reason of state, was always at hand to help her to resign herself.
Georges and Sidonie met at the theatre.