A novel, 1874
Two Little Wooden Shoes
Bébée is an orphan rescued from the water as a baby and raised by Antoine Mäes and his wife near Brussels.
How it begins
Bébée sprang out of bed at daybreak. She was sixteen. It seemed a very wonderful thing to be as much as that—sixteen—a woman quite.
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