clearstarcher

The clearstarcher, meanwhile, was going from bad to worse.

L'Assommoir ��mile Zola 1871

But as the clearstarcher made no reply Virginie then said no more.

L'Assommoir ��mile Zola 1871

Goujet, wishing to save Etienne from Coupeau's rough treatment, had taken him to the place where he was employed to blow the bellows, with the prospect of becoming an apprentice as soon as he was old enough, and Etienne thus became another tie between the clearstarcher and the blacksmith.

L'Assommoir ��mile Zola 1871

Mme Lerat had amused herself by quarreling with her sister, to whom she had expressed her admiration of the generosity evinced by Gervaise, and when she saw that Mme Lorilleux was intensely exasperated she declared she had never seen such eyes in anybody's head as those of the clearstarcher.

L'Assommoir ��mile Zola 1871

The clearstarcher went home, but how or by what route she never knew.

L'Assommoir ��mile Zola 1871

Mamma Coupeau never dared to speak out openly to the clearstarcher, but after a dispute she was unsparing in her hints and allusions.

L'Assommoir ��mile Zola 1871

The clearstarcher was very pale and so much agitated that she could hardly stand.

L'Assommoir ��mile Zola 1871

The clearstarcher set the basket down at her feet.

L'Assommoir ��mile Zola 1871

The clearstarcher always carried a certain basket of clothes to her customer each week, because it gave her a pretext for going into the forge, as it was on her way.

L'Assommoir ��mile Zola 1871

But when she looked up in the face of the clearstarcher she recoiled, trembling from head to foot.

L'Assommoir ��mile Zola 1871