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Fromont and Risler

CHAPTER X
10/18

She don't rig herself up like that to go to mass, that's sure! To think that it ain't three years since she used to start for the shop every morning in an old waterproof, and two sous' worth of roasted chestnuts in her pockets to keep her fingers warm.

Now she rides in her carriage." And amid the talc dust and the roaring of the stoves, red-hot in winter and summer alike, more than one poor girl reflected on the caprice of chance in absolutely transforming a woman's existence, and began to dream vaguely of a magnificent future which might perhaps be in store for herself without her suspecting it.
In everybody's opinion Risler was a dishonored husband.

Two assistants in the printing-room--faithful patrons of the Folies Dramatiques--declared that they had seen Madame Risler several times at their theatre, accompanied by some escort who kept out of sight at the rear of the box.

Pere Achille, too, told of amazing things.

That Sidonie had a lover, that she had several lovers, in fact, no one entertained a doubt.


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