text:  On some passing friend's remark on the annoyance of living in such a place--"Pray " said the Beau "is it not a general opinion that a gentleman might manage to spend his time pleasantly enough _between_ London and Paris?" At Calais he took apartments at the house of one Leleux an old bookseller which he fitted up to his own taste; and on which as if adversity had no power to teach him common prudence he expended the greater part of the 25 000 francs which by some still problematical means he had contrived to carry away with him