Chapter

 1     I|             beside him sat two peasant girls; two chubby little wenches,
 2     I|           beside him two young peasant girls that his dilapidated organism
 3     I|               feet, one of the peasant girls sat by his head stroking
 4     I|              some good wine and pretty girls, eh?"~ ~"My wine is bad - '
 5     I|          making the two little peasant girls dance in front of him with
 6     I|                choose you there pretty girls to your heart's content,
 7     I|               carriage. The two little girls took their places by him,
 8     I|              My respects to the little girls at home, and to the little
 9   III|             top of his head. The young girls had twined it out of[Pg
10   III|               underlings."~ ~"How many girls have you befooled?"[Pg 62]~ ~"
11   III|                done."~ ~"And then four girls ought to sit on the top
12    IV|          daughters. In 1818 two of the girls were already grown up -
13    IV|             known as "the pretty Meyer girls."~ ~How their father and
14    IV|               beauty! And these pretty girls, these universal belles,
15    IV|              And he could not call his girls away from the great world,
16    IV|             broken up in it. The Meyer girls, whenever they wanted to
17    IV|               hand; and could the good girls have shown a greater spirit
18    IV|            both ends meet. As for your girls, they are now old enough
19    IV|              her that one of the Meyer girls was employed in the theatre,
20    IV|             the meagre food, the elder girls with their appetites spoilt
21    IV|              poverty to the world. The girls were obliged to get out
22    IV|               liking for.~ ~"What good girls these girls of mine are!"
23    IV|                  What good girls these girls of mine are!" said this
24    IV|                this blubbering?"~ ~The girls raised their handkerchiefs
25    IV|             bowed as decorously to the girls as if they were young countesses
26    IV|           fellows!~ ~Four of the Meyer girls were now tall and stately,
27    IV|            seem to see him, and if his girls were with him, they and
28    IV|             come to himself again. The girls and the young dandies commented
29    IV|             You have devoted your four girls to the bottomless pit, and
30    IV|               thought. How many wicked girls could be suffocated there!
31     V|              did not know of the Meyer girls in those days? - and those
32     V|           question in the world.~ ~The girls themselves made no mystery
33    VI|               youthful mind, for young girls are so very credulous. Why,
34  VIII|                 especially when pretty girls are about. My nephew has
35  VIII|              making merry with peasant girls."~ ~"He has completely changed
36    IX|            Here am I with four foolish girls, each one madder than the
37    IX|                 Ah! why did not all my girls remain little! Ay, ay! how
38    IX|             what has happened to those girls? A rich country gentleman
39    IX| twopenny-halfpenny swells that deceive girls with promises of marriage,
40    IX|                just looked in, and the girls were wild to know how their
41     X|                condemns, poor betrayed girls who have tripped into endless
42    XI|               where two or three young girls at least must be present,
43   XII|             admitted that middle-class girls are not so bad when they
44   XXI|               form a fund for dowering girls of good behaviour on their