Comment! y vous ont donné vot' compte à cause de vot' cousin? excusez!...J'y - aurais dit, moi, Madame, et le vot' de cousin?... un' jeunesse que vous aviez élevée... - Les maitres, voyez-vous, ma chère, c'est ingrat comme des oiseaux...

Gavarni, Paul, 1804-1866 · June 1, 1839

At left, on a street corner, an old cook, seen from the back, holding a birch broom in one hand and a shawl covered basket in the other. She turns toward another cook at right, younger, who turns with one of her fingers the piece of iron which serves to hold open to window blind behind her.