It came as a shock to realise that this young foreign vagabond had taken such a place within his thoughts.

The pose of his limbs and head, irregular but not ungraceful; his disillusioned lips; the rings of smoke that issued from them--all signified rebellion, and the overthrow of law and order.
His thin, lopsided nose, the rapid glances of his goggling, prominent eyes, were subtlety itself; he stood for discontent with the accepted.
"How do I live when I am on the tramp ?" he said, "well, there are the consuls.

The system is not delicate, but when it's a question of starving, much is permissible; besides, these gentlemen were created for the purpose.

There's a coterie of German Jews in Paris living entirely upon consuls." He hesitated for the fraction of a second, and resumed: "Yes, monsieur; if you have papers that fit you, you can try six or seven consuls in a single town.

You must know a language or two; but most of these gentlemen are not too well up in the tongues of the country they represent.