Chapter

 1 I   |         You shall see, my little girl.”~The storm began to abate.
 2 I   |      sight of her bed, the young girl uttered a scream of joy.
 3 I   |         apparently dead. A young girl, gazing at him, was plunging
 4 II  |          which she had read as a girl. She read all the sentimental
 5 II  |    latter’s childhood. The young girl saw herself in all these
 6 III |          is good looking and the girl is pretty. They were happy
 7 IV  |      trembling hand of the young girl, he imprinted upon it a
 8 IV  | neglected ever since. As a young girl nobody paid any attention
 9 IV  |         had gone to rest a young girl; she was now a married woman.
10 V   |          do it.’~“It was about a girl whom they were both after,
11 VII |        ask her: “Are you ill, my girl?” The little maid would
12 VII |        when she noticed that the girl was not moving about the
13 VII |          matter?” she asked.~The girl did not reply, did not move.
14 VII |          room, he found the poor girl had just been delivered
15 VII |       you intend to do with this girl?”~She did not understand,
16 VII |      certainly would not let the girl go away like that. It would
17 VII |        is my foster-sister, that girl; we grew up together. She
18 VII |       will not matter.” The poor girl glanced furtively at the
19 VII |       care of it, never fear, my girl.” Then as she was beginning
20 VII |          asking them to send the girl to them at once if they
21 VII |          she said:~“See here, my girl, tell me everything.”~Rosalie
22 VII |         but cannot be helped, my girl. You were weak, but that
23 VII |        it. You wish to keep this girl. Keep her, but do not bother
24 VII |         me about her.”~Since the girl’s illness he appeared to
25 VII |    thought she was a very little girl. She had no recollection
26 VII |       the priest said: “Come, my girl, listen to what is said
27 VII |    Poplars” he left her for this girl. That was why he wanted
28 VII |      warm hand on the despairing girl’s forehead. This seemed
29 VII |   understood; you will give this girl the Barville farm, and I
30 VIII|          thousand francs on that girl?”~No one replied, they were
31 VIII|         his refusal to allow the girl whom he had led astray to
32 IX  |       then again “My dear little girl,” “My darling,” “My dearest
33 X   |          around her; a boy and a girl.~But since the affair of
34 X   |     careful. Faith, when I see a girl come to confess who looks
35 X   |         to a stillborn infant, a girl.~Jeanne saw nothing of the
36 XI  |      these same paths as a young girl, carried away by her dreams.~
37 XI  |        into consideration that a girl had been the cause of his
38 XI  |      recognize me?”~“Rosalie, my girl!” cried Jeanne, throwing
39 XI  |       did you come back, my poor girl?”~“Pardi! do you suppose
40 XI  |          have recognized you, my girl, you have changed greatly;
41 XI  |        How could you help it, my girl? One cannot always do as
42 XI  |         never leave me again, my girl?”~“No, indeed, madame, I
43 XI  |           tell me everything, my girl, all about your life. It
44 XII |            We cannot help it, my girl,” said Jeanne. “I feel that
45 XII |        she said to her: “My poor girl, I never could make up my
46 XII |      voice: “Do you remember, my girl, how it rained when we left
47 XIII|     began to grow again, a young girl in a short skirt passed
48 XIII|      through the cunning of this girl who had had such a hold
49 XIII|         replied: “Never that, my girl. And as he will not come
50 XIII|         back soon!”~“Good-by, my girl.”~A whistle and the train
51 XIV |         Do as you think best, my girl.”~She imagined herself pursued
52 XIV |         giving birth to a little girl three days ago, and I have
53 XIV |     leave it like that.”~“Go, my girl,” replied Jeanne.~Then they
54 XIV |   married and here is the little girl.” And she held out the child,