Au Bonheur des Dames.
GROSBOIS, a Government surveyor who had also a small farm at Magnolles,
a little village near Rognes. Liable to be summoned from Orgeres to
Beaugency for purposes of survey, he left the management of his own land
to his wife, and in the course of these constant excursions he acquired
such a habit of drinking that he was never seen sober. That mattered
little, however; the more drunk he was the better he seemed to see;
he never made a wrong measurement or an error in calculation. People
listened to him with respect, for he had the reputation of being a sly,
acute man. La Terre.
GUENDE (MADAME DE), a friend of the Saccards. She was a woman well known
in the society of the Second Empire. La Curee.
GUEULE-D'OR, the sobriquet of Goujet. L'Assommoir.
GUEULIN, nephew of Narcisse Bachelard, was a clerk in an insurance
office. Directly after office hours he used to meet his uncle, and never
left him, going the round of all the cafes in his wake. "Behind the
huge, ungainly figure of the one you were sure to see the pale, wizened
features of the other." He said that he avoided all love affairs, as
they invariably led to trouble and complications, but he was ultimately
caught by his uncle in compromising circumstances with Mademoiselle
Fifi, who was a protegee of the old man.
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