CHAPTER II

Hope in Laffitte--A false hope--New projects--M. Lecomier--How and on what conditions I clothe myself anew--Bamps, tailor, 12 rue du Helder--Bamps at Villers-Cotterets--I visit our estate along with him--Pyramus follows a butcher lad--An Englishman who loved gluttonous dogs--I sell Pyramus--My first hundred francs--The use to which they are put--Bamps departs for Paris--Open credit