Zola, Émile books

The Ladies' Paradise (BBC tie-in) (Oxford World's Classics)

For some time the young girl had been getting weaker and weaker, and she had been obliged to take to her bed two days earlier. ‘Tell her I’ll come straight away,’ Denise replied, very worried. It was the sudden disappearance of Colomban which was killing Geneviève. At first, because Clara had tea...