| Brocaded concierges are choreographed to look like revolving doors. |
| All the same, many bourgeois wore thick shoes, carried umbrellas, and tried to look as much like their own concierges as they could. |
| The concierges, called hall porters here, are just to the right, efficiently satisfying demands. |
| Daddy Jacques had no sooner uttered these words of pity and protestation than tears and lamentations broke out from the concierges. |
| Her face, therefore, like that of the gentleman, was perfectly unknown to the two concierges, who were perhaps unequalled throughout the capital for discretion. |
| It happens two or three times a day and the concierges get fed up reporting it. |
