'Which hotel ?' he asked; 'I do not care,' I answered.

'Do you wish to go to the Hotel du Senat ?' The name pleased me; perhaps it was an omen.

He took me to the Hotel du Senat, where, with what I had left of my eighty francs, I paid a month in advance.

I stayed there eight years." "That is remarkable." "What else could I do?
I knew Latin and Greek as well as any man in France, but as far as anything else was concerned I was as ignorant as a schoolmaster.

The same day I tried to make use of what I knew, and I went to a publisher of classic books, of whom I had heard my professor of Greek literature speak.