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 1 III |        The draper, annoyed by his assistant's perspicacity,~shot a side
 2 III |         earlier," said the second assistant, whose duty~this was.~ ~
 3 IV  |           Joseph Lebas, the chief~assistant, an orphan without any fortune,
 4 IV  |     before the elder. The~unhappy assistant felt that his heart was
 5 V   |         the elder. So the hapless assistant, whose~heart was as warm
 6 VII |       Guillaume, shut up with his assistant and his wife, balanced~his
 7 VIII|      draper had never yet bid his assistant be seated in~his presence,
 8 IX  |         old~merchant, pulling the assistant's ear. "And I forgive you--
 9 IX  |        had scarcely looked~at his assistant, who was weeping copiously. "
10 IX  |      that--I love?" stammered the assistant.~ ~Much put out by his own
11 IX  |  extremely embarrassed. The young assistant's bashfulness~commended
12 IX  |     desired Augustine to take the assistant's arm on their~way to Saint-Leu.
13 X   | Mademoiselle Augustine," said the assistant,~and he trembled, "that