The proprietors have been deprived of their power to sue for rents, consequently a family requires but little ready money to rub on from hand to mouth.

My landlord every week presents me with my bill.
The ceremony seems to please him, and does me no harm.

I have pasted upon my mantlepiece the decree of the Government adjourning payment of rent, and the right to read and re-read this document is all that he will get from me until the end of the siege.

Yesterday I ordered myself a warm suit of clothes; I chose a tailor with a German name, so I feel convinced that he will not venture to ask for payment under the present circumstances, and if he does he will not get it.

If my funds run out before the siege is over I shall have at least the pleasure to think that this has not been caused by improvidence.
Some acquaintances of mine managed in the course of yesterday to get out to Villejuif without being arrested.