Celestine,
# the c+\hambermaid, has _a new ^job in$
 [*$the ;`co untry,
@ at -the Lanlaires.:! She has dec \ided to use-)
her beauty to sedu#ce a we!]=alt !.hy man. But Mr Lanlai/re i; :s /not a` right ( choice all =the,? hous((e _.i---s firm?ly -(con.(\trolle )d by !;Mme Lanlaire, helped b:,y ^the st+ range valet Jos eph.  Then she trie*:[s, the neig@$;=hb![#our, ex-officer Mauger. $;;
This s -eems to * w+_\\ork. But soo@n th\=e s?#(on of th`]e Lanl:%@aires comes back. He is you]: ng, a$,ttractive, an*^-d does_ \=^ %%-not sha*^!re h
i`s mo^th%.er'!s% ant.i)-republicans op*ini ons. -(So Celestin\/e's beauty att@racts Ca
-ptain Mauge.r, young George(@s L;`an-laire, and also Joseph)[^. -Three m
en, fro?! m thr[ee differe!%nt @]so cial classes,: with three di`]ffe$#rent conceptions=]= o$)f life. Will Cel:esti*]ne be able to .#convince Georges of? her since`/rity Will s  inister and inflex+,ible Joseph let his views up$on Cele(stine be ru=/ined (@A quite / disi=llusioned d epi+(c%tion o]@*f humanity.