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Updated: August 2, 2024
"'The garden's full o' growin' posies that outshames the flower-makers; watch out and see, Anastasia!
Gervaise didn't know yet because Nana had never indicated any preference. "In your place," said Madame Lerat, "I would bring Nana up as an artificial flower-maker. It is a pleasant and clean employment." "Flower-makers?" muttered Lorilleux. "Every one of them might as well walk the streets." "Well, what about me?" objected Madame Lerat, pursing her lips. "You're certainly not very polite.
At one time I thought hair was given us only to furnish a profession to hair-dressers; just as we wear artificial flowers to support the flower-makers." "Upon my word, it is not uninteresting. There is always some haute nouveauté in economy. The ways of depriving one's self are infinite. There is wine, now." "Not own your residence! As soon not own your tomb as your residence!
The men had been very careful, for propriety's sake, to use only suitable language, but Madame Lerat refused to follow their example. She flattered herself on her command of language, as she had often been complimented on the way she could say anything before children, without any offence to decency. "Just you listen, there are some very fine women among the flower-makers!" she insisted.
After going through a sort of inspection by the old woman at the entrance, during which it was ascertained we had not pilfered anything, we were allowed to depart. Bright and early, after a four-cent breakfast, I was on my way to find the place where I had read the sign, "Flower-makers Wanted. Paid while learning."
When Sonia had any money she gave her landlady, for part of a room in the poor tenement with the flower-makers, $3.50 a month, and about $2.50 a week for food. Before her dull season and slack work began, she had paid 20 cents a week dues to a self-education society and social club. Her brother had given her all the clothing she had.
Their sore eyes betray the little flower-makers when they come tardily to school.
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