It was the others, the sub-lieutenants or military students, who proudly showed him the rounds of German joy.
Julio was accordingly introduced to all the night restaurants--imitations of those in Paris, but on a much larger scale.
The women who in Paris might be counted by the dozens appeared here in hundreds.

The scandalous drunkenness here never came by chance, but always by design as an indispensable part of the gaiety.

All was grandiose, glittering, colossal.

The libertines diverted themselves in platoons, the public got drunk in companies, the harlots presented themselves in regiments.

He felt a sensation of disgust before these timid and servile females, accustomed to blows, who were so eagerly trying to reimburse themselves for the losses and exposures of their business.