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Updated: May 25, 2025

But did you not see that that beggar had holes in her stockings and a seam of filth and mud, half- an-ell high, on the bottom of her petticoat?" "I saw it, Catherine." "Have you not seen, Jacques, how badly she is made and that really she is skinny?" "I saw it, Catherine." "And withal you loved that Savoyard she-monkey, you who have a white skin and distinguished manners!"

Anatole France - The Queen Pedauque