Chapter 21 No.21

BRENT had an apartment in the rue de Rivoli, near the Hotel Meurice and high enough to command the whole Tuileries garden. From his balcony he could see to the east the ancient courts of the Louvre, to the south the varied, harmonious fa?ades of the Quay d'Orsay with the domes and spires of the Left Bank behind, to the west the Obélisque, the long