Word: asleep
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...violent ringing is heard. M. Pontbicket, a glove manufacturer, comes out from his room, half asleep, and opens the door. Dardard, the "jeune homme presse," from Bordeaux, rushes in, dressed in his best clothes. He asks if Mr. Pontbicket had not gone to such and such a place that evening; if he did not sit in No. 13, second row, first gallery; and if his daughters had not been there with him. Pontbicket answers in the affirmative. It then develops that Dardard saw Mile. Pontbicket that evening, fell in love with her, and has come to ask for her hand...