Excerpt from My Ragpicker

What a stately dame! You think I'm dreaming? Oh, no, only seeing visions.

You know my weakness, indulge me. What was I saying about the lady?

Oh, you all know her - Notre Dame of Paris. But do you know anything about the quarter of the Buttes-Chaumont? Anything of its weedy wastes where the butchers of La Villette keep their cattle? Of its by-ways and blind alleys, of its tumble-down sheds and glaring lime-washed huts and houses? Do you know anything of its poverty and filth?

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