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One hot, savory beef-stew for supper, a night's good sleep, and she would be fit in the morning to apply again for the tasks of Hercules, Joan of Arc, Una, Job, and Little-Red-Riding-Hood. In her room she got the granite-ware stew-pan out of the 2x4-foot china er I mean earthenware closet, and began to dig down in a rat's-nest of paper bags for the potatoes and onions.
There was something Joan of Arc-ish, Herculean, and Una-ish in the look and pose of the shop-lady she had cast off the rôles of Job and Little-Red-Riding-Hood. The young man stopped at the foot of the stairs and coughed distractedly. He felt marooned, held up, attacked, assailed, levied upon, sacked, assessed, panhandled, browbeaten, though he knew not why.
The story of her rise to an eight-dollar-a-week salary is the combined stories of Hercules, Joan of Arc, Una, Job, and Little-Red-Riding-Hood. You shall not learn from me the salary that was paid her as a beginner.
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