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Girauds Little Daughter, by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Title: Mère Girauds Little Daughter
Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
Release Date: November 4, 2007 [EBook #23326]
Language: English
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MÈRE GIRAUDS LITTLE DAUGHTER
By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Copyright, 1877
"Prut!" said Annot, her sabots clattering loudly on the brick floor as she moved more rapidly in her wrath. "Prut! Madame Giraud, indeed! There was a time, and it was but two years ago, that she was but plain Mere Giraud, and no better than the rest of us; and it seems to me, neighbors, that it is not well to show pride because one has the luck to be favored by fortune. Where, forsooth, would our 'Madame' Giraud stand if luck had not given her a daughter pretty enough to win a rich husband?"
"True, indeed!" echoed two of the gossips who were her admiring listeners. "True, beyond doubt. Where, indeed?"
But the third, a comely, fresh-skinned matron, who leaned against the door, and knitted a stout gray stocking with fast-clashing needles, did not acquiesce so readily.
"Well, well, neighbors," she sa