Miserable as these dormitories were, the landlady asked and obtained twenty-two francs for them by the month, as there was a fireplace in each, which she always pointed out to intending tenants.
The young woman whom M.Loupins alluded to by the name of Rose was seated in one of these dreary dens on this bitter winter's day.

Rose was an exquisitely beautiful girl about eighteen years of age.

She was very fair; her long lashes partially concealed a pair of steely blue eyes, and to a certain extent relieved their hard expression.

Her ripe, red lips, which seemed formed for love and kisses, permitted a glimpse of a row of pearly teeth.

Her bright waving hair grew low down upon her forehead, and such of it as had escaped from the bondage of a cheap comb, with which it was fastened, hung in wild luxuriance over her exquisitely shaped neck and shoulders.