From The Ladies' Paradise, by Emile Zola, translated by Anonymous (Ernest Alfred Vizetelly (?))
THE RISES
"The rises were always given the day after stock-taking; it was the epoch at which, the amount of business done during the year being known, the managers of the departments drew their commission on the increase of this figure, compared with that of the preceding year. Thus, notwithstanding the bustle and uproar of the work, the impassioned gossip went everywhere, Between two articles called out, they talked of nothing but money."
From Chapter X
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