Excerpt from The Wicker Work Woman: A Chronicle of Our Times So sat M. Bergeret beneath the huge plaster cylinder, manufacturing his own sadness and weari ness as he reflected on his narrow, cramped, and dismal life his Wife was a vulgar creature, who had by now lost all her good looks; his daughters.

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