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The real Latin quarter (1901)

Smith, Frank Berkeley, 1869- · New York, Funk & Wagnalls Co. · leaf 120

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l Bullier,or dining at the Pantheon, with the fellowwhose studio is opposite yours. Alice Lemaitre, however, was a far differ-ent type of femme de menage than any ofthe gossiping daughters of old Pere Valois,and her lot was harder, for one night sheleft her home in one of the provincial towns,when… … Yvette de Marcie, a lady with a bad tem-per and many jewels, to whom little Alice,with her rosy cheeks and bright eyes andwilling disposition to work in order to live,became a person upon whom this fashion-able virago of a demi-mondaine ventedthe worst that was in her—and there wasmuch of…

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