The Launching of Roger Brook
“Rennes was the best part of fifty miles from St. Malo, its nearest seaport. Even had he now been prepared to admit defeat and endeavour to beg a passage home on promise of payment the other end, his few crowns would not support him for so long a tramp; and the poverty of the French countryside made it, unlike England, no place in which one could with any ease pick up a night’s board and lodging here and there in return for casual work. Whatever he might decide to do later, he saw that, for the time being, he must somehow secure employment in Rennes which would enable him, by careful saving, to build up a capital of at least five louis before taking any further decision as to his future.
It then occurred to him that he was not altogether friendless. Maître Léger had not only given him very shrewd legal advice the day before on Athénaïs’s instructions, but behaved towards him in the most pleasant and kindly manner.
Turning about he retraced his steps to the Hôtel and once more bearded t...he supercilious Monsieur Aldegonde, who told him that the lawyer lived in the Rue d’Antrain a few doors from the Hôtel de Ville, and that the street lay only just across the Place.MoreLess
It then occurred to him that he was not altogether friendless. Maître Léger had not only given him very shrewd legal advice the day before on Athénaïs’s instructions, but behaved towards him in the most pleasant and kindly manner.
Turning about he retraced his steps to the Hôtel and once more bearded t...he supercilious Monsieur Aldegonde, who told him that the lawyer lived in the Rue d’Antrain a few doors from the Hôtel de Ville, and that the street lay only just across the Place.MoreLess
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