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A nail-polisher lay on the looking-glass, hastily thrown down; and that also witnessed to that bodily self-respect which Caroline shared with nearly all those other girls in Thorhaven who would have been in domestic service ten years ago, but now went daily to shops and offices.
She seemed so set on that Mr. Popple's coming round. From the way he acted last night she thought he'd be sure to come round this morning. She's so lonesome, poor child I can't say as I blame her." "Oh, he'll come round. Things don't happen as quick as that in New York," said Mrs. Heeny, driving her nail-polisher cheeringly. Mrs. Spragg sighed again. "They don't appear to.
Hannah, who was young, but had a thick, colorless skin, nodded with an inscrutable expression. "I have always thought she used something on her face," said Miss Hart. "You can't cheat me." Hannah took up a little, ivory-backed nail-polisher which was also on the wash-stand. "What do you suppose this is?" she asked, timidly, in an awed whisper. "How do I know?
I never use such things myself, and I never knew women who did before," said Miss Hart, severely. "I dare say, after she puts the paint on, she has to use something to smooth it down where the natural color of the skin begins. How do I know?" Hannah laid the nail-polisher beside the box of salve. She was very much in love with the son of the farmer who lived next to her father's.
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