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Updated: May 23, 2025

There were two or three guttural greetings "N' Morgen, Meine Damen...." A large limber woman met them in the front room with their bill and stood talking to Fraulein as the girls straggled out into the sunshine. She was wearing a neat short-skirted crimson-and-brown check dress and a large blue apron and her haggard face was lit with radiantly kind strong dark eyes. Miriam envied her.

Dorothy Miller Richardson - Pointed Roofs : Pilgrimage, Volume 1