← I had been out most of the morning and, as it was too late to reach home in time for luncheon, I sought the Vingtième. 🔊
← This little place—Restaurant du Vingtième Siècle, to give it its full title—had been discovered in '96 by the poets and prosaists, but had now been more or less abandoned in favor of some later find. 🔊
← The Vingtième was but a small whitewashed room, leading out into the street at one end and into a kitchen at the other. 🔊
← The proprietor and cook was a Frenchman, known to us as Monsieur Vingtième; the waiters were his two daughters, Rose and Berthe; and the food, according to faith, was good. 🔊
← The gangway between the two rows of tables at the Vingtième was hardly more than two feet wide (Rose and Berthe, in their ministrations, had always to edge past each other, quarreling in whispers as they did so), and any one at the table abreast of yours was virtually at yours. 🔊
← I gathered that this was his first visit to the Vingtième; but Berthe was offhand in her manner to him: he had not made a good impression. 🔊
← His eyes were handsome, but, like the Vingtième's tables, too narrow and set too close together. 🔊
← Long before seven o'clock I was back at the Vingtième. 🔊
← I hope so, for I never went to the Vingtième again. 🔊
← Of him I have caught sight several times, here and there, since that day at the Vingtième. 🔊