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I can bend this accursed leg, MON AMI. And then, if you
are ever out of a job, come to me.’
Now that I was short of my rent, and getting hungry, I
remembered Boris’s promise, and decided to look him up at
once. I did not hope to become a waiter so easily as he had
promised, but of course I knew how to scrub dishes, and no
doubt he could get me a job in the kitchen. He had said that
dishwashing jobs were to be had for the asking during the
summer. It was a great relief to remember that I had after all
one influential friend to fall back on.

Down and Out in Paris and London