Women were there in great numbers: young work-girls, all rosy, with white linen, and clean petticoats, who tripped along briskly from one end of the glazed partition to the other, opening great attentive eyes, as if they were before the dressed shop window of a linendraper. There were also women of the lower orders looking stupefied, and giving themselves lamentable airs; and well-dressed ladies, carelessly dragging their silk gowns along the floor.
Les femmes étaient en grand nombre; il y avait de jeunes ouvrières toutes roses, le linge blanc, les jupes propres, qui allaient d'un bout à l'autre du vitrage, lestement, en ouvrant de grands yeux attentifs, comme devant l'étalage d'un magasin de nouveautés; il y avait encore des femmes du peuple, hébétées, prenant des airs lamentables, et des dames bien mises, traînant nonchalamment leur robe de soie.