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He treated all of us like this. It was our compensation for
working seventeen hours a day.
As a rule the last Metro was almost empty—a great ad-
vantage, for one could sit down and sleep for a quarter of an
hour. Generally I was in bed by half past one. Sometimes
I missed the train and had to sleep on the floor of the res-
taurant, but it hardly mattered, for I could have slept on
cobblestones at that time.
1 Down and Out in Paris and London
