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"Just gone to the post-office. She came in at twelve and finished her dinner in time for a bit of fresh air before going back. How is she getting on in her work?" "First rate, the forelady reports. Rose is naturally quiet, and as you predict, Mother, it is very important for her to be among new companions. A girl's pretty face is not always a help to her best interests." "Exactly, Molly.
But isn't there somebody somewhere anybody you can go to and ask them to help you out of this?" "No there's no one," said she. "That can't be true," insisted the forelady. "Everybody has somebody or can get somebody that is, anyone who looks like you. I wouldn't suggest such a thing to a fool. But you could keep your head. There isn't any other way, and you might as well make up your mind to it."
There's tips, you know, sir, and quite a little one can pick up commissions from the stores, selling second-hand clothes and shoes, and so on. So when Cousin Mabel had this chance to buy out the Madame Ritz Beauty Parlors, where she'd been forelady for so long, I could furnish half the capital and go in as a silent partner." "Wha-a-at?" says Ham, his eyes bugged.
Marrin came up, more and more machines stopped, as if by contagion, and the place grew strangely hushed. The forelady turned to her boss. "This woman's sneaked in here without a permit!" Marrin spoke sharply. "What do you want?" Then in the quiet Sally spoke in a loud, exultant voice. "I only wanted to tell the girls to strike!" A sudden electricity charged the air.
And he's got dactylis on him. Give me the real thing or nothing, if you please." Two of the most "refined" women in the store a forelady and a cashier had a few "swell gentlemen friends" with whom they now and then dined. Once they included Nancy in an invitation. The dinner took place in a spectacular cafe whose tables are engaged for New Year's eve a year in advance.
She is such a very nice person, our forelady—quiet, attractive, neat as a pin. Her sister addresses boxes and does clerical work of one sort or another. Two subdued old maids they are; never worked any place but right on our third floor. “Ain't like what it used to be,” she told me. “In the old days girls used to work here till they got married.
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