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Dennet had been standing on the steps cleaning her tame starling's cage, when Mistress Headley had suddenly come out on the gallery behind her, hotly scolding her laundress, and waving her cap to show how ill-starched it was.
Some neglected duty of her servitude, some ill-starched ministerial band, disturbed the poor damsel in her grave and kept her at work without any wages. But to return from this digression. A part of my predecessor's library was stored in the garret, no unfit receptacle indeed for such dreary trash as comprised the greater number of volumes.
'Another day, when the morrow is Sunday, and my father's ruff is to put to shame all the other pastors', said Eustacie, her quick fingers still moving. 'No, he shall not go ill-starched for any Duchess in France. Now am I in any haste to be lectured by Madame de Quinet, as they say she lectured the Dame de Soubrera the other day. 'My child, you will go; much depends on it.
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