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The real Latin quarter (1901)

Smith, Frank Berkeley, 1869- · New York, Funk & Wagnalls Co. · leaf 211

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manybrave spirits have suffered and worked onand suffered again, and at last won fame!How many have failed! We who comewith a fresh eye know nothing of all thathas passed within these quaint streets—only those who have lived in and throughit know its full story. Pochard has seen it; so has the… … tions of grisettes, from the true grisette ofyears gone by, in her dainty white cap andsimple dress turned low at the throat, tothe tailor-made grisette of to-day. Yet the eyes of the little old woman stilldance; they have not grown tired of thisever-changing kaleidoscope of human na-ture, this…

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