She did the washing for all the house--M.

Madinier, Mademoiselle Remanjou, the Boches.

She even secured some of the customers of her old employer, Madame Fauconnier, Parisian ladies living in the Rue du Faubourg-Poissonniere.

As early as the third week she was obliged to engage two workwomen, Madame Putois and tall Clemence, the girl who used to live on the sixth floor; counting her apprentice, that little squint-eyed Augustine, who was as ugly as a beggar's behind, that made three persons in her employ.

Others would certainly have lost their heads at such a piece of good fortune.