The girl was one of those pretty and charming young creatures who sometimes are born, as if by a slip of fate, into a family of clerks. (Guy de Maupassant)

The girl was one of those pretty and charming young creatures who sometimes are born, as if by a slip of fate, into a family of clerks.

Guy de Maupassant

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