Transcribed from the 1886 Macmillan and Co. edition. Scanned by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org. Proofing by Emma Hair, Francine Smith and Matthew Garrish. I was not rich—on the contrary; and I had been told the Pension Beaurepas was cheap. I had, moreover, been told that a boarding-house is a capital place for the study of human nature. I had a fancy for a literary career, and a friend of mine had said to me, “If you mean to write you ought to go and live in a boarding-house; there is no other such place to pick up material.” I had read something of this kind in a letter addressed by Stendhal to his sister: “I have a passionate desire to know human nature, and have a great mind to…
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