Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Francois the Waif
The Chemin aux Napas, which probably none of you, my dear readers, will ever see, as it leads to nothing that can repay you for the trouble of passing through so much mire, is a break-neck path, skirting along a ditch where, in the muddy water, grow the most beautiful nymphaem in the world, more fragrant than lilies, whiter than camellias, purer than the ves ture of virgins, in the midst of the lizards and other reptiles that crawl about the mud and ?owers, while the kingfisher darts like living lightning along the banks, and skims with a fiery track the rank and luxuriant vegetation of the sewer.
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