Above a deformed and puny body she had a sweet little doll-like head, a tiny round face, pale and exquisitely delicate.

Her infirmity almost became graceful.

Her body swayed gently at every step with a sort of rhythmical swing.
[*] The chief female character in _L'Assommoir_ (_The Dramshop_).
The Macquarts' son, Jean,[*] was born three years later.

He was a robust child, in no respect recalling Gervaise.

Like the eldest girl, he took after his mother, without having any physical resemblance to her.