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Updated: June 1, 2025
The salesman took from a shelf two dark, heavy cloth jackets, cut out, and tied up in separate bundles with a strip of the fabric from which they had been taken. As he handed them, to the woman he said "Remember, now, these are to be made extra nice." "You shall have no cause of complaint depend upon that, Michael. But isn't Mr. Berlaps in this morning?" "No.
Above all was a close bonnet, and a thick vail, which she drew around her face as she stepped into the street and glided hurriedly away. "She's a touch above the vulgar, Michael," broke in Berlaps, the owner of the shop, coming forward as he spoke. "Yes, indeed! That craft has been taut rigged in her time." "Who can she be, Michael? None of your common ones, of course?"
The children have had nothing to eat since yesterday. I took home six pairs of trowsers to-day, which came to ninety cents, at fifteen cents a pair. But I had seven pairs, and Mr. Berlaps wont pay me until I bring the whole number. It will take me till twelve o'clock to-night to finish them, and so I can't get any money before to-morrow.
Her half-withdrawn vail showed her face to be very pale, and her eyes much sunken. A deep, jarring cough convulsed her frame for a moment or two, causing her to place her hand almost involuntarily upon her breast, as if she suffered pain there. "It's a good while since you took these shirts out, Lizzy," said Berlaps, in a tone meant to reprove her for the slowness with which she worked.
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