Show living on his books I 1 was in tore tile ather afternoon when the door olien oil dc toil what ill it first fiest glance looked to roc me to be a small loy hoy came came 11 in in n mor klent more I 1 saw lint it was ras it a litlie lie old gentleman scarly doubled up oil mill tit some spinal neak weakness iless and cry shabbily dressed but cleanly withal willial llis 1115 face was perfectly spider webbed with ur crinkles inkles and his pale we blue eyes seemed to swim with ith moisture inside their red and clabby lids lidi lie walked dragging C 0 his feel along the 0 ground and was a pet feet picture piet tire ct cf reckless painful to plate lie ile exchanged some low words in ill french alth aih 11 the bocksel ter and put a i little package tit in ilk hand bonaventure unwrapped the clumsy covering and 10 lo a superbly Ilici bound tind little illuminated iiii issal was revealed tile took uis his visitor apart and after some 0 gate gaie aitu mccrai bills of a c considerable amount each cacti vilken the at man away there said Bonsen ture who has a Freu frenchman climan s talent for resolving a ev even ell commonplaces into romances es goes a 1 last leaf of a chapter of alstor history that it is the list last l of it famous family ennobled by napoleon I 1 tit nt the of the ventury this hook book which has sold me to buy bread is part of tile the spoil of kome ecat campaign made by liis his elder brother and bequeathed to him ire ile ate his picture 0 gallery up tip before lie left paris vor lor l or nearly ten years cars lie he has been beell living here pan ilis his books I 1 have bought bluite a number of him at good prices for they arc very choice lie ile must be near the last elicit and then chent the bookseller paused atil and dhru shrug ged his shoulder should ert ia ali ah well lie said halt half to hii so alt if I when ividell a man mail is old and hopeless what does docs it matter mattei illy aly fail lillic is lucky to have an empty bookcase to make a coffin of r cr |