Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Preface

The Central Tavern
Though We Count for Nothing, Far Be it From Me …
A Boarding House, Central Barcelona
A Death in Barcelona
A Friend: Albert Santaniol
A Madrid Lodging House
Counterpoint
Boulevard Saint-Michel, Paris
What You Might Expect: Nothing
A Case Study
Un Homme Fatal
A Family in Foreign Parts
An Adventure on the Channel
A Lodging House on Cambridge Street
A Conversation in St. James’s Park
Meanwood, Leeds, Yorkshire
Obscure Northern Saintliness
My First Trip to Portugal
With the Sun on Your Back
Memories of Florence
The Business at the Pensione Fiorentina, in Rome
THE BERLIN CIRCLE
Portrait of Inflation
Roby or Deflation
Intermittently Moribund