The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 3 of 6

Author: Eugène Süe (Joseph Marie Eugène Sue)
Published: 1843
Language: English
Wordcount: 99,651 / 288 pg
Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease: 78
LoC Category: PQ
Downloads: 465
Added to site: 2010.09.28
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Origin: gutenberg.org
Excerpt

weet pretty chimney ornaments; but I shall be sure to have them some of these days, though I do not know exactly when; but still, they do so run in my head, that, sooner than be disappointed, I will sit up all night to work."

"And besides these ornaments?"

"Oh, nothing more; no, I cannot recollect any one other thing I care for more especially now."

"Why now, particularly?"

"Because, yesterday, if you had asked me the same question, I should have replied, there was nothing I wanted more than an agreeable neighbour in your apartments, to give me an opportunity of showing all the little acts of kindness I have been accustomed to perform, and to receive nice little attentions in return."

"Well, but you know, my dear neighbour, we have already entered into an agreement to be mutually serviceable to each other; you will look after my linen for me, and I shall clean up and polish your chamber for you; and besides attending to my linen, you are to wake me every morning early by tap

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