They walked slowly along the pavement, keeping close to each other, lighted up by the glare from the shop windows which showed them smiling and talking together in low voices.
The music-hall was in the Boulevard de Rochechouart.

It had originally been a little cafe and had been enlarged by means of a kind of wooden shed erected in the courtyard.

At the door a string of glass globes formed a luminous porch.

Tall posters pasted on boards stood upon the ground, close to the gutter.
"Here we are," said Lantier.

"To-night, first appearance of Mademoiselle Amanda, serio-comic." Then he caught sight of Bibi-the-Smoker, who was also reading the poster.