Every day I drank four litres of milk, besides half
a litre of cream. Only Boris now believed that the restaurant would
open.
He is the slave of ahotel or a restaurant, and his
slavery is more or less useless. After ten days I managed to find afree quarter of
an hour, and wrote to my friend B. And then I set to work to smash
thecrockery.
Every day I drank four litres of milk, besides half
a litre of cream. Also, there were always several copper saucepans toclean. At about
eleven I began looking for a bed. When they gotoo slowly the passenger calls them
BAHINCHUT.
We took care to have a pot always stewing, and
drank pintsduring the day. Nevertheless, the conditions behind the kitchen door were
suitable fora pigsty. For the first time I noticed, too, how the attitude ofwomen
varies with a mans clothes. I helped ahawker pick up a barrow that he had
upset.
Past experience setme against pawning my best suit.
He is the slave of ahotel or a restaurant, and his slavery is more or less
useless.
The cook and I generally found time to eat our
dinner between ten andeleven oclock.
After the first week a quantity of linen didnot
come back from the wash, as the bill was not paid.
A ceaseless, nagging chorus of ordersstreamed from
her:Unspeakable idiot!
Anything, he thinks, anyinjustice, sooner than let
that mob loose. Then one night there wastremendous excitement, because our first
Frenchman had arrived.
Then one night there wastremendous excitement,
because our first Frenchman had arrived.
ThePATRON was at his wits end to know where the
milk was going.
The crockery did not arrive till eight, and, being
new, hadall to be washed. After ten days I managed to find afree quarter of an hour,
and wrote to my friend B. After an hour a policeman came back with the tin of
cocaine and a notefrom the analyst.