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There had been guai, worse than usual; the mistress had reviled her unendurably for some fault or other, and was it not hard that she should be used like this after having tanto, tanto lavorato! In fact, she was appealing for my sympathy, not abusing me at all.
For some reason she was almost in tears. 'No, I have not worked for hunger, she replied, 'but I have worked! 'Travaille lavorato? he asked. 'E che lavoro che lavoro? Quel travail est-ce que vous avez fait? He broke into a mixture of Italian and French, instinctively using a foreign language when he spoke to her. 'You have never worked as the world works, he said to her, with sarcasm.
There had been guai, worse than usual; the mistress had reviled her unendurably for some fault or other, and was it not hard that she should be used like this after having tanto, tanto lavorato! In fact, she was appealing for my sympathy, not abusing me at all. If only one could have learnt, in intimate detail, the life of this domestic serf!
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