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L’Assommoir

CHAPTER X
18/98

She had taken up the little tulle cap and was asking her mother how much it cost.

And as Coupeau thrust out his hand to seize hold of the cap, it was Gervaise who pushed him aside exclaiming: "Do leave the child alone! She's very good, she's doing no harm." Then the zinc-worker let out in real earnest.
"Ah! the viragos! The mother and daughter, they make the pair.

It's a nice thing to go to church just to leer at the men.

Dare to say it isn't true, little slattern! I'll dress you in a sack, just to disgust you, you and your priests.

I don't want you to be taught anything worse than you know already.


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