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With easy, leisurely steps, constantly stopping to look into the windows / of the quaint shops they passed on the way, Sylvia Bailey and Anna Wolsky / walked up the steep, the almost mountainous byways and narrow streets / which lead to the top of Montmartre.
The whole population seemed to have poured itself out in the open air on / this sunny day; even the shopkeepers had brought chairs out of their / shops and sat on the pavement, gaily laughing and gossiping together in / the eager way Parisians have. As the two foreign ladies, both young, both / in their very different fashion good-looking, walked past the sitting / groups of neighbours -- men, women, and children would stop talking and / stare intently at them, as is also a Parisian way.