Grivet

When Camille introduced his friend to the company, Grivet pinched his lips.

Theresa Raquin ��mile Zola 1871

Henceforth, Grivet and Michaud, who for nearly eighteen months had visited the house under the pretext of consoling Madame Raquin, could set their little hypocrisy aside, and frankly come and doze opposite one another to the sharp ring of the dominoes.

Theresa Raquin ��mile Zola 1871

It was prolonged until half-past eleven, and as Grivet withdrew, he declared that he had never passed such a pleasant time.

Theresa Raquin ��mile Zola 1871

Laurent, nerveless and depressed, did not experience the least impatience, but listened complacently to the coarse jokes of old Michaud and Grivet, who indulged themselves to their hearts 'content, now that the ladies were no longer present.

Theresa Raquin ��mile Zola 1871

Camille introduced another guest, an old clerk at the Orleans Railway, named Grivet, who had been twenty years in the service of the company, where he now held the position of head clerk, and earned 2,100 francs

Theresa Raquin ��mile Zola 1871

On the Thursday following the marriage, Grivet and Michaud made

Theresa Raquin ��mile Zola 1871

A young man, said he, who had such a brilliant future before him, a young man who in the space of four years, had reached a salary that he, Grivet, had taken twenty years to attain!

Theresa Raquin ��mile Zola 1871

During the four years, or thereabouts, that the Michauds and Grivet had been in the habit of passing the Thursday evenings at the Raquins ', they had not once felt fatigued at these monotonous evenings that returned with enervating regularity.

Theresa Raquin ��mile Zola 1871

These gentlemen never paused, and it was only with difficulty that Grivet succeeded in getting in a word edgeways between

Theresa Raquin ��mile Zola 1871

Then Grivet and Camille listened to the stories of the commissary with the affrighted and gaping countenances of small children listening to "Blue Beard" or "Tom Thumb."

Theresa Raquin ��mile Zola 1871