The Conquest of Plassans
Translated by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
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The opening
I
Désirée clapped her hands. She was fourteen years old and big and strong for her age, but she laughed like a little girl of five.
‘Mother! mother!’ she cried, ‘look at my doll!’
She showed her mother a strip of rag out of which she had been trying for the last quarter of an hour to manufacture a doll by rolling it and tying it at one end with a piece of string. Marthe raised her eyes from the stockings that she was darning with as much delicacy of work as though she were embroidering, and smiled at Désirée.
‘Oh! but that’s only a baby,’ she said; ‘you must make a grown-up doll and it must have a dress, you know, like a lady.’
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- Ernest Alfred Vizetelly's English translation, copied word for word.
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- The source library's header, footer and license, in 2 places
- The title page and opening pages before chapter 1, in 3 places
- The printed table of contents (the app makes its own)
- A preface, foreword or afterword
- Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers, in 13 places
- The printed closing line "THE END." (like "End of volume I"), not the author's words