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Nana. The Miller’s Daughter. Captain Burle. Death of Olivier Becaille

CHAPTER VIII
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It made her angry with that clique.

Oh, they were a regular cheap lot, in spite of their airs and graces! Yes, by Jove, she was worth more than the whole lot of them! "They can have their little joke out," she concluded, "but money will never give them true happiness! Besides, you know, Aunt, I don't even know now whether all that set are alive or not.

I'm much too happy." At that very moment Mme Maloir entered, wearing one of those hats of which she alone understood the shape.

It was delightful meeting again.
Mme Maloir explained that magnificence frightened her and that NOW, from time to time, she would come back for her game of bezique.

A second visit was paid to the different rooms in the lodgings, and in the kitchen Nana talked of economy in the presence of the charwoman, who was basting the fowl, and said that a servant would have cost too much and that she was herself desirous of looking after things.


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