CHAPTER XII

Appearance of Trouville--Mother Oseraie--How people are accommodated at Trouville when they are married--The price of painters and of the community of martyrs--Mother Oseraie's acquaintances--How she had saved the life of Huet, the landscape painter--My room and my neighbour's--A twenty-franc dinner for fifty sous--A walk by the sea-shore--Heroic resolution