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L’Assommoir

CHAPTER V
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Every day the same cry came from her heart to her lips.
"What does she have, that wretched cripple, for people to fall in love with her?
Why doesn't any one want me ?" She busied herself in endless gossiping among the neighbors.

She told them the whole story.

The day the Coupeaus got married she turned up her nose at her.

Oh, she had a keen nose, she could smell in advance how it would turn out.

Then, Clump-clump pretended to be so sweet, what a hypocrite! She and her husband had only agreed to be Nana's godparents for the sake of her brother.


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