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銆€銆€The outer boulevard is their breathing space; the suburbs belong nike high heels to them.
銆€銆€There they are eternally playing truant. There they innocently sing their repertory of dirty songs. There they are, or rather, there they exist, far from every eye, in the sweet light of May or June, kneeling round a hole in the ground, snapping marbles with their thumbs, quarrelling over half-farthings, irresponsible, volatile, free and happy; and, no sooner do they catch sight UGG boots clearance of you than they recollect that they have an industry, and that they must earn their living, and they offer to sell you an old woollen stocking filled with cockchafers, or a bunch of lilacs. These encounters with strange children are one of the charming and at the same time poignant graces of the environs of Paris.
銆€銆€Sometimes there are little girls among the Nike high heels throng of boys,-- are they their sisters?--who are almost young maidens, thin, feverish, with sunburnt hands, covered with freckles, crowned with poppies and ears of rye, gay, haggard, barefooted.
銆€銆€They can be seen devouring cherries among the wheat.
銆€銆€In the evening they can be heard laughing. These groups, warmly illuminated by the full glow of midday, or indistinctly seen in the twilight, occupy the thoughtful UGGS Clearance man for a very long time, and these visions mingle with his dreams.
銆€銆€Paris, centre, banlieue, circumference; this constitutes all the earth to those children.
銆€銆€They never venture beyond this. They can no more escape from the Parisian atmosphere than fish can escape from the water.
銆€銆€For them, nothing exists two leagues beyond the barriers:
銆€銆€Ivry, Gentilly, Arcueil, Belleville, Aubervilliers, Menilmontant, Choisy-le-Roi, Billancourt, Mendon, Issy, Vanvre, Sevres, UGG Boots Clearance Puteaux, Neuilly, Gennevilliers, Colombes, Romainville, Chatou, Asnieres, Bougival, Nanterre, Enghien, Noisy-le-Sec, Nogent, Gournay, Drancy, Gonesse; the universe ends there.
BOOK FIRST.--PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM
CHAPTER VI
銆€銆€A BIT OF HISTORY
銆€銆€ At the epoch, nearly contemporary by the way, when the action of this book takes place, there was not, as there is to-day, a policeman at the corner of every street (a benefit which UGG boots clearance there is no time to discuss here); stray children abounded in Paris. The statistics give an average of two hundred and sixty homeless children picked up annually at that period, by the police patrols, in unenclosed lands, in houses in process of construction, and under the arches of the bridges.
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