At the small tables which were arranged about the room some thirty customers were drinking English beer, porter, gin, and brandy; smoking, the while, long red clay pipes stuffed with little balls of opium mingled with essence of rose.
Une trentaine de consommateurs occupaient dans la grande salle de petites tables en jonc tressé. Quelques uns vidaient des pintes de bière anglaise, ale ou porter, d'autres, des brocs de liqueurs alcooliques, gin ou brandy.