The wonders that he would be able to relate in the future!.

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But the distraction and indifference of his present audience were annoying him greatly.

He would hasten back to the studio, in feverish excitement, to communicate the latest gratifying news to Desnoyers who would listen as though he did not hear him.
The night that he informed him that the Government, the Chambers, the Diplomatic Corps, and even the actors of the Comedie Francaise were going that very hour on special trains for Bordeaux, his companion merely replied with a shrug of indifference.
Desnoyers was worrying about other things.