"Take your shoes and stockings off quick, miss. They’re already burnt. If you keep ’em on, the limewash is gonna burn your legs." Illustration from "Les malheurs de Sophie", written by the Countess of Ségur in 1858. 1880 edition illustrated by Horace Castelli and published by Hachette.

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