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At Poissy the other also alighted, strolled over to the H�tel de Rouen, and, in the company of a slowly consumed matelote and four successive absinthes, dozed, pondered, smoked—and waited for the dark.

"Oh! my dear, eels don't break; you can do whatever you please with eels—even to making a matelote."

A matelote may be made of eels alone, but it is better with eels and one, two, or three other kinds of fish.

Oh, you happy child, to have nothing worse to do than to rattle down the Bois in a milord, and sup off a matelote by the lake with your Romeo!

It is used to simmer fish in when directed to be à la matelote, and if it were already thickened the whole would burn.