Chapter 33

Falling in love with Paris at first sight—a _coup de feu_, it was—in no way dimmed the energy and the care with which on the day of my arrival I began to put into operation the cautious and laborious Plan for self-support I had brought along. It rather intensified it. As I must begin at the bottom to build up contacts with strangers on the other side of the ocean, and as there was but $150 in my pocket, there was no time to waste. In the ten years I had been trying to support myself I had learned that the art of sp…