Chapter

 1 I   |        occasionally the sobs of a woman.~“Horrible!” cried the police
 2 I   |         the middle of the room. A woman crouched upon the lower
 3 I   |       been attacked; ask that old woman. I defended myself; I have
 4 I   |           advanced toward the old woman, who was still crouching
 5 I   |          your customers.”~The old woman’s little red eyes traveled
 6 I   |           truly as I am an honest woman. If my son Polyte had been
 7 I   |           What would you say, old woman, if I arrested you?”~“It
 8 I   |           I am innocent; and this woman and a man on the point of
 9 III | sententious tones: “Who holds the woman holds the cause!”~Lecoq
10 III |          of the marks made by the woman with the small foot and
11 III |        Mother Chupin’s house, the woman with the small feet sprang
12 III |      faint circle there. Then the woman with the broad feet came
13 III |        the footprints made by the woman with the small feet suddenly
14 III |       meet them, and he aided the woman with large feet in carrying
15 III |    however, is certain, while the woman with the small feet was
16 III |          accomplice saying to the woman with the broad shoes?”~Lecoq
17 III |          think, however, that the woman was explaining to the man
18 IV  |         ten footmarks left by the woman who wore the broad shoes,
19 V   |           stone, “to think that a woman who had ten thousand francs’
20 VI  |         it upon the features of a woman who died suddenly from the
21 VII |       inquired.~“Quite alone: the woman in one cell, and the man
22 VII |         responded. “Isn’t the old woman alone in her cell? Ah, the
23 VII |        was treated—she, an honest woman. Was she not the mainstay
24 VIII|  hesitated for a moment, when the woman added: ‘And ten francs for
25 VIII|          myself: ‘Here is a young woman who has drunk more than
26 VIII|        the higher standing to the woman wearing the shoes with the
27 VIII|       preeminence belonged to the woman who had left the large,
28 VIII|         that the shabbily dressed woman who paid me had a hand as
29 VIII|       little room he found an old woman knitting. Lecoq bowed to
30 VIII|     forgotten,” exclaimed the old woman. “The night you speak of
31 IX  |     containing an abstract of the woman’s former life, and furnished
32 IX  |     maiden name,” replied the old woman, “and to-day, the Widow
33 IX  |          others.”~The list of the woman’s offenses was not exhausted,
34 IX  |       gained; for this shrewd old woman, possessed of all her coolness,
35 IX  |          below call out: ‘Eh! old woman!’ So I went down, and found
36 IX  |       questions more, and the old woman would be obliged to contradict
37 IX  |       have called out: ‘Here, old woman!’ Did he merely guess that
38 IX  |       establishment was kept by a woman; and that this woman was
39 IX  |         by a woman; and that this woman was no longer young?”~“He
40 IX  |           below call out ‘Eh! old woman.’ So I went down,” etc.,
41 X   |       more arduous task to make a woman, similarly situated, speak
42 X   |     repress a smile.~“If this old woman would only decide to make
43 X   |   struggle, and confesses. Now, a woman scoffs at evidence. Show
44 X   |          strong enough to break a woman’s dogged resistance.~“If
45 X   |    suffering; but if I allow this woman to associate with the other
46 X   |            She was a kind-hearted woman. She took me, examined me,
47 XI  |            called for some one. A woman came downstairs, and I asked
48 XII |          shut him up with the old woman.”~Goguet, the clerk, wrote
49 XIV |    lighted room, where he found a woman standing upon a chair, her
50 XIV |          t a parrot,” replied the woman, who had not yet descended
51 XIV |           you or I,” rejoined the woman, jumping down from the chair.~
52 XIV |         last Sunday evening.”~The woman’s face brightened. “Wait
53 XIV |          reminds me,” replied the woman. “He has never returned,
54 XIV |      phrase which might lead this woman to show him the register
55 XIV |      record with a dazed air, the woman exclaimed: “Ah! now I can
56 XIV |           his English accent. The woman noticed this at once, for
57 XIV |           to ask if you know this woman who keeps the Hotel de Mariembourg?”~“
58 XIV |           now.”~“And what kind of woman is she?”~“Why, upon my word,
59 XIV |         you that she is an honest woman, and that she is very well
60 XV  |   detectives entered, and found a woman busily engaged in making
61 XV  |           to speak, appraised the woman. She was short, stout, and
62 XV  |        fact that this unfortunate woman loved him—had always loved
63 XV  |      cried Father Absinthe to the woman, who stood petrified with
64 XV  |          acquaintances.”~The poor woman’s hesitation was evident;
65 XV  |         brutally,” said the young woman, indignantly; “besides,
66 XV  |          was so horrible, and the woman’s grief so great, that,
67 XVI |          to push forward the poor woman whose testimony might prove
68 XVI |        magistrate the name of the woman who had just entered his
69 XVI |           didn’t draw out of this woman everything she knew, when
70 XVI |           You may retire, my good woman,” said he kindly, after
71 XVI |          to be a very respectable woman.”~“It must have been one
72 XVI |           under what pretext this woman obtained permission to see
73 XVII|         of his mother’s sister, a woman named Rose Pitard. A visiting
74 XVII|       description of her. She’s a woman over five feet high, with
75 XVII|           Mariembourg—that clever woman who succeeded so well in
76 XVII|           getting to him, the old woman remembered her sister’s
77 XVII|        the street, one of them, a woman of forty, dressed in black;
78 XVII|    easy-chair, Lecoq found an old woman, tall, bony, and terrible
79 XVII|        was rather doubtful what a woman like Polyte Chupin’s wife
80 XX  |  assistance, and the news of this woman’s departure would naturally
81 XX  |      speak to?”~“To a very pretty woman, upon my word!—fair and
82 XX  |      first?”~“May.”~“What did the woman say? Did you hear any cry
83 XX  |       fifty yards off; but by the woman’s manner I could see she
84 XX  |       they would only arrest this woman and question her,” suggested
85 XXII|     apartments. The buxom-looking woman who appeared in answer to
86 XXV |  Poivriere, and the presence of a woman, who was perhaps his wife,