THE THREE CITIES



PARIS



BY

EMILE ZOLA



TRANSLATED BY ERNEST A. VIZETELLY



BOOK II



I

REVOLUTIONISTS

IN that out-of-the-way street at Neuilly, along which nobody passed after
dusk, Pierre's little house was now steeped in deep slumber under the
black sky; each of its shutters closed, and not a ray of light stealing
forth from within. And one could divine, too, the profound quietude of