From that time he was treated as one of the family; he even had his room there, his meals there, lived there, and was thus enabled to send to his mother half his salary of three thousand francs.
Des lors, traité en enfant de la maison, il y eut meme sa chambre, y mangea, y vécut, ce qui lui permettait d'envoyer a sa mere la moitié de ses appointements de trois mille francs.