As soon as I had got clear of these, by means of changing my clothes and linen, I proceeded to furnish the chamber I had chosen.

I made a good mattress with my waistcoats and shirts; my napkins I converted, by sewing them together, into sheets; my robe de chambre into a counterpane; and my cloak into a pillow.

I made myself a seat with one of my trunks laid flat, and a table with the other.

I took out some writing paper and an inkstand, and distributed, in the manner of a library, a dozen books which I had with me.

In a word, I so well arranged my few movables, that except curtains and windows, I was almost as commodiously lodged in this Lazeretto, absolutely empty as it was, as I had been at the Tennis Court in the Rue Verdelet.