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Excerpt from The Seven Cardinal Sins, Vol. 4 of 5: Avarice, Anger One fine morning in the month Of May, 18 a young girl about eighteen years Of age, who was clad in working dress, and whose charming though melancholy face wore that peculiar pallor which seems to be a sort of sinister re ection of poverty, was walking thought fully down the Charnier des Innocents. Several times she paused as if in doubt in front Of as many scriveners' booths, but either because the proprietors seemed too young or too unprepossessing in appearance or too busy, she went slowly on again. Seeing, in the doorway of the last booth, an Old man with a face as good and kind as it was venerable, the young girl did not hesitate to enter the modest little establishment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."