THE LADIES' PARADISE
(The Sequel To “Piping Hot!”)
A Realistic Novel
By Émile Zola
Translated without Abridgment from the 80th French Edition
London: Vizetelly And Company
1886.
CONTENTS
THE LADIES' PARADISE
CHAPTER I.
DENISE had walked from the Saint-Lazare railway station, where a Cherbourg train had landed her and her two brothers, after a night passed on the hard seat of a third-class carriage. She was leading Pépé by the hand, and Jean was following her, all three fatigued after the journey, frightened and lost in this vast Paris, their eyes on
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