CHAPTER IX

The theatre ticket--The _Café du Roi_--Auguste Lafarge--Théaulon--Rochefort--Ferdinand Langlé--People who dine and people who don't--Canaris--First sight of Talma--Appreciation of Mars and Rachel--Why Talma has no successor_--Sylla_ and the Censorship--Talma's box--A cab-drive after midnight-- The return to Crespy--M. Lefèvre explains that a machine, in order to work well, needs all its wheels--I hand in my resignation as his third clerk