The notary's nose;

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two, three, ten adorers, known or unknown.
What a fgte for the girls till the curtain
falls! They are pretty, decked up, gazed
after, admired, and have nothing to fear
from criticisms or hisses. Midnight
sounds; everything is changed as in the
fairy tale. Cinderella starts with her
mother or with her big sister, toward the
cheap garrets of Batignolles or Montmartre. She limps a trifle, poor little one!
and spatters her gray stockings. The
good and wise mother of the family, who
has placed all her hopes on the head of
this child, repeats over again, on the way,
a few lessons in wisdom.
"Keep the straight path in life, my
daughter, and don't allow yourself to fall;
or, if the fates absolutely decide that such
misfortune shall reach you, be very careful to fall upon a rosewood bed!"
The counsels of experience are not
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