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Bonheur Des Dames, Or, the Shop Girls of Paris
Bonheur Des Dames Or the Shop Girls of Paris Author:Emile Zola General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1883 Original Publisher: T.B. Peterson Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get fr... more »ee trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE "BOIflEUB DES DAMES." BY DH IVt I IL. 3U 250H. L. Author Of nan A," " Lassommoir," "claude's Confession," " Helens," "pot-eouillh," "therese Raquin," " Ths Kvsteries Of Marseilles," " Kagdalbn Ferat," " Thr Girx. In Scarlet," " Aleinr," "the Mysteries Of The Cocrt Of Louis Napoleon," "la Eelle Lisa; Or, The Paris Marret Girls," "a Mad Love ; Or, The Aebe And His Court." TRANSLATED BY JOHN STIRLING. CHAPTER I. DENISE had come on foot from the Saint-Lazare station where a train from Cherbourg had brought her with her two brothers, after a night spent on the hard benches of a third class car. She held P6p6 by the hand and Jean followed at her heels. All three were weary with their journey, frightened and bewildered by this vast Paris. They looked up at all the houses and stopped at every corner to ask their way to the Rue de la Michodie're in which their Uncle Baudu lived. But when the young girl at last turned into the Place Gaillon she stopped short in amazement. "Oh!" she exclaimed, " look at that, Jean ! " (23) And they stood still, huddled close together. They were wearing out their shabby mourning for their father and were therefore all in black. She, thin for her twenty years, and with an air of great poverty, carried a light bundle ; a small brother about five years old clung to her arm and a taller one, robust and sixteen, lounged a little behind with empty hands hanging by his side. " Well!" she said after a long silence, " that is a shop indeed !" On the corner of Rue de la Michodiere and Ru...« less