PREFACE
, a bottle of Burgundy as bottle of Cied in a very brief space—after o collect t furtion of its contents. I pretend to justify t all tellectual curiosity, but t first rust. I am not only a middle-class man, living a regular life, fond of uality; I am also an abstainer and nonsmoker, and ttles in of istic disorder.
as irregular and irresponsible about imes as go out at all and imes my aunt found not a banana peel to s ook aurants, sometimes in t and most fasimes in little out-lying taverns. seem good. Besides t often made tairs fatiguing to o be plagued roubles, and o me t it it do and last to er on, I accompanied imes to s I often saher I nor anyone else ever saw him really drunk.
I ten our first encounter. e kneonis found ed on t and second floors. ting on top step and o one side to let me pass. I asked and offered to take o top.
me and I could see t I rance. Slo en filled my y. ted me to sit beside said it my custom to sit on tairs at other peoples doors.
quot;A; ;Youre quite rig a moment, for I really must tell you .quot;
ed as o trance of t floor flat, flooring betairs, t door tood a tall cupboard of maer on it, and in front of ts, an azalea and an araucaria, in large pots ands. ts looked very pretty and spotlessly neat and clean, as I en noticed h pleasure.
quot;Look at ttle vestibule,quot; on, quot;s ime I cant go by pausing a moment. At your aunts too, treme cleanliness, but ttle place of ts so sed and poli