“Oh! talk as much as you want. I can wait.”
“Well, then, the day after we had landed, M. Farniol, the owner of the
French restaurant, offered me a place as waiter. Of course I accepted,
and stayed there a year. Now I wait at table at the Hotel de France,
kept by M. Roy. You can send for my two masters; they will tell you
whether there is any complaint against me.”
“They will certainly be examined. And where do you live?”
“At the Hotel de France, of course, where I am employed.”