After a little reflection, the manager decided on trying the experiment, and directed that '13 A' should be
reserved accordingly.
There was one seedy French waiter, who was attempting to learn English in a house where he never heard anything but French; and the customers were a few ladies of easy virtue, a menage or two, who had their own napkins
reserved for them, and a few queer men who came in for hurried, scanty meals.
His mother, who had her own separate property, had allowed Alexey every year twenty thousand in addition to the twenty-five thousand he had
reserved, and Alexey had spent it all.