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Allons donc, Célestine! allons donc! - M'man? - Allons! léve-toi. - M'man? - Comment ta (sic) brûlé tout ça de - chandelle! avec les romans, va! - Oui, m'man. - Qu'est-ce que t'as lu encore? - "Une heure trop tàrd." - Cetrainement! Voilà pourquoi tu te lèves une heure trop tard...aussi!
Gavarni, Paul, 1804-1866 · November 16, 1841
A figure as far as the knees, an old woman in a bonnet, almost from the back, turned toward the right, near a bed, in which her daughter is lying, her bare arms outside of the bed covers. On a stool, next to a candle, a book, on the cover of which one reads clearly: "Une heure trop tard."
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