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About midnight there was a fearful interview with some
duns, who came intending to seize eight copper saucepans
which the PATRON had obtained on credit. They were
bought off with half a bottle of brandy.
Jules and I missed the last Metro home and had to sleep
on the floor of the restaurant. The first thing we saw in the
morning were two large rats sitting on the kitchen table,
eating from a ham that stood there. It seemed a bad omen,
and I was surer than ever that the Auberge de Jehan Cottard
would turn out a failure.
1 Down and Out in Paris and London
