Chapter

 1 1 |        Resignation. ~One day the girl's face was transfigured.
 2 1 |           and I went out. ~"Poor girl!" I said to myself as I
 3 1 |      neighbouring streets a poor girl who was being marched along
 4 3 |        kind of love for the poor girl to whom I owed the volume.
 5 4 |     inherited 50,000 francs. The girl had not seen her sister
 6 4 |         heir a fine, fat country girl, who until then had never
 7 4 |          for regretting the poor girl. And now," he added, rubbing
 8 5 |             Well, what sort of a girl was she?" ~"A good sort
 9 5 |       was she?" ~"A good sort of girl." ~"Is that all?" ~"Oh,
10 5 |          well." ~"What sort of a girl was she?" ~"A fine, good
11 5 |         was she?" ~"A fine, good girl. I was very sorry to hear
12 5 |        that come to see the poor girl don't exactly cumber the
13 5 |      ruined themselves over that girl, and lovers that worshipped
14 5 |         I have a fine, strapping girl myself; she's just twenty,
15 5 |          just twenty, and when a girl of that age comes here I
16 7 |       She has been ill; the poor girl won't last long." ~I remember
17 7 |          years the sight of this girl had made a strange impression
18 7 |       name: "Look at that pretty girl." ~At that moment Marguerite
19 7 |          asked after her. ~"Poor girl, she is very ill," he answered. ~"
20 8 |       They say she is a charming girl." ~"Don't you know her?" ~"
21 9 |          she had loved. ~In this girl there was at once the virgin
22 9 |              She is such a queer girl, one never knows. The night
23 9 |      being torn in two. The poor girl turned crimson, closed her
24 10|        been so particular with a girl like me?" ~"One must always
25 10|       and whose reality the poor girl sought to escape in dissipation,
26 11|        not the first time that a girl like Marguerite had promised
27 11|          to think over this poor girl's life, and my love for
28 12|         be loved by a pure young girl, to be the first to reveal
29 12|          not to be deceived by a girl of sixteen to whom nature,
30 12|        seem so pure. ~The more a girl believes in goodness, the
31 12|       through her heart; often a girl who has sought in marriage
32 13|         all the luxuries which a girl like that is in need of?
33 13|       for a good, bright, pretty girl; be her lover for a month,
34 13|        the caprice that a pretty girl has for you too seriously. ~"
35 13|          by there is a beautiful girl who is waiting impatiently
36 13| Saint-Denis. I am a poor country girl, and six years ago I could
37 16|       cure in hand, and the poor girl, seeing my aim, obeyed me
38 18|    couldn't bear to see the poor girl stripping herself of everything.
39 22|        her love for me, the poor girl could not make up her mind
40 22|        you to-morrow." ~The good girl went and got me a cloak,
41 22|         the side of a pure young girl, ignorant of all our miseries,
42 23|          with emotion. "The poor girl left me for her carriage,
43 23|      very much in love with that girl." ~You can imagine the way
44 23|         tell her. She was a good girl; but, after all, like the
45 24|      Marguerite's, that the poor girl was seriously ill. ~I then
46 25|        letter; but, written by a girl like me, such a letter might
47 25|          yourself about the poor girl whom you loved before you