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They could earn scarcely enough to satisfy their most pressing needs, but both were happy, since they were in Paris. Before Alphonse's arrival Ernest had secured regular employment on a newspaper. Alphonse was longing for recognition as a poet, but to earn his living he was forced to turn to prose. His contributions to Le Figaro and other newspapers soon made him known.
Outside the main current of the plot Daudet sketches one of the little dramas of humble life of which he was so fond: the story of Delobelle, an impoverished actor who lives for his art while his devoted wife and daughter Désirée patiently ply the needle to earn bread. Daudet up to this time had been recognized as the greatest of French short-story writers.
[Note 5: He may keep it still as ou (selon les anciennes éditions) at a face-royal, for a barber shall never earn six pence out of it. Face-royal signifie certainement ici autre chose que royal face. C'était, selon toute apparence, le nom d'une pièce de monnaie, d'une valeur assez considérable, et le sens de la plaisanterie de Falstaff serait alors que le prince la conservera dans toute sa valeur, car un barbier ne gagnera jamais six pence dessus. Voil
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