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"I admit," replied Mahiette, "that it is only in Paris that such Flemings can be seen." "Did you see among the embassy, that big ambassador who is a hosier?" asked Oudarde. "Yes," said Mahiette. "He has the eye of a Saturn." "And the big fellow whose face resembles a bare belly?" resumed Gervaise.
A moment later, she laid her finger on her lips, and made a sign to Mahiette to draw near and look. Mahiette, much touched, stepped up in silence, on tiptoe, as though approaching the bedside of a dying person. It was, in fact, a melancholy spectacle which presented itself to the eyes of the two women, as they gazed through the grating of the Rat-Hole, neither stirring nor breathing.
Mahiette went on. "So she was very sad, very miserable, and furrowed her cheeks with tears. But in the midst of her shame, her folly, her debauchery, it seemed to her that she should be less wild, less shameful, less dissipated, if there were something or some one in the world whom she could love, and who could love her.
Oudarde, a big and tender woman, would have been well pleased to sigh in company with Mahiette. But Gervaise, more curious, had not finished her questions. "And the monster?" she said suddenly, to Mahiette. "What monster?" inquired the latter. "The little gypsy monster left by the sorceresses in Chantefleurie's chamber, in exchange for her daughter. What did you do with it?
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