... from the highest and the lowest in the land, you understand, people who wrote to me and confided in me to-day as kings and emperors had done in the past. In the antechamber there was a chair-bedstead ... can find out." "It is on the first floor, immediately facing the service staircase, and at the end of the long passage which leads to the main staircase." "Easy to find, then," ... out the three rooms, fetch water from the well in the courtyard below, light the fire in the iron stove which stood in my inner office, shell the haricots for his own mess of pottage, and put them...