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Page 61
My mother says she still employs her because that woman has a magic touch for
washing silk and satin underclothes. All the others, the laundresses from
Martinique, India, Africa, Spain, even France, they all ruined her underwear with
their ...
My mother says she still employs her because that woman has a magic touch for
washing silk and satin underclothes. All the others, the laundresses from
Martinique, India, Africa, Spain, even France, they all ruined her underwear with
their ...
Page 63
I defy them, bare my nibbling teeth at them, scatter cookie crumbs all over their
lambskin boots—ersatz spit, a childish pleasure, but oh, how deeply felt. The
ginger flavor excites my taste for blasphemy. Sitting on a bench, an elegant
woman in ...
I defy them, bare my nibbling teeth at them, scatter cookie crumbs all over their
lambskin boots—ersatz spit, a childish pleasure, but oh, how deeply felt. The
ginger flavor excites my taste for blasphemy. Sitting on a bench, an elegant
woman in ...
Page 98
A stump of a woman, repulsively ugly, sticking her hand into a package of
cookies on the platform of the Saint-Michel métro station. A slob unwelcome in
chic tearooms. The dregs of humanity riding an elevator in the fashionable XVlth
...
A stump of a woman, repulsively ugly, sticking her hand into a package of
cookies on the platform of the Saint-Michel métro station. A slob unwelcome in
chic tearooms. The dregs of humanity riding an elevator in the fashionable XVlth
...
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