From the Tomb

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌‌​​​​‌​​‌‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​‌‌​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌‌​‌​​​​‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌​⁠TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF DE MAUPASSANT BY E. C. WAGGENER.

The guests filed slowly into the hotel’s great dining-hall and took their places, the waiters began to serve them leisurely, to give the tardy ones time to arrive and to save themselves the bother of bringing back the courses; and the old bathers, the yearly habitues, with whom the season was far advanced, kept a close watch on the door