At Odds with the Regent: A Story of the Cellamare Conspiracy

At Odds with the Regent: A Story of the Cellamare Conspiracy

Night had already come as I drew my cloak more closely about me and stepped forth into the street. I had lingered long over my meal, as a man will who has been alone all the day and sees little chance of companionship before him. For in all the city I knew no one, and there seemed small prospect of the night bringing any enjoyment with it. I turned to the left, away from that dingy house in the Rue Bailleul, which was the only home I had thus far found in Paris, determined to forget, for a time at least, its narrow entrance leading to the dirty interior court, where a thousand odors struggled ceaselessly for mastery; the dark staircase mounting steeply upward, and the close little room, which a single weeks occupancy had sufficed[10] to render loathsome to me. Ah! it was different from the wide, sweet valley of the Loire. At the outset of my career in Paris I had been confronted by a problem which demanded immediate solution. I might lodge well and dress poorly, or I might dress well and lodge poorly, but I had not money enough to do both well. After mature deliberation, I had chosen the latter course and expended my money upon my wardrobe, reasoning that all the world would notice my attire, while no one would penetrate to my lodging. My neighbors in the Rue Bailleul had not yet recovered from the astonishment with which my advent had filled them, and still gazed wonderingly and suspiciously after me whenever I chanced to pass. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 66721
Author: Stevenson, Burton Egbert
Release Date: Nov 13, 2021
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publisher: J. B. Lippincott
Publication Date: 1900
Publisher Country: United States

Contributors

Illustrator: Betts, Anna Whelan, 1875-1959