And when she lost her husband in 1839, and went to live in Paris, she took Lisa with her.

The parents had almost given her their daughter.
[*] The pork-butcher's wife in _Le Ventre de Paris_ (_The Fat and the Thin_).
The second girl, Gervaise,[*] born the following year, was a cripple from birth.

Her right thigh was smaller than the left and showed signs of curvature, a curious hereditary result of the brutality which her mother had to endure during her fierce drunken brawls with Macquart.
Gervaise remained puny, and Fine, observing her pallor and weakness, put her on a course of aniseed, under the pretext that she required something to strengthen her.

But the poor child became still more emaciated.

She was a tall, lank girl, whose frocks, invariably too large, hung round her as if they had nothing under them.