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I nodded. "Yes, I remember that." "From that," Mr. Bundercombe continued, "she went on to suggest that I should help her in the ambition of her life, which, it seems, was to take a single room for manicuring a few clients. In an ordinary way I should have refused that, too; and, if she had been hard up, begged to be allowed to oblige her with a trifling loan and ended the matter in that way.
A would-be graduate could not be seen with bundles; for fetching and carrying the work my good landlady extorted twenty cents to the dollar. When the fur season was slack I cooked in a restaurant, worked a typewriter, became a "hello girl" at a telephone, you know reported murder cases anything, everything. 'Manicuring, he recalled tenderly. 'Manicuring, she repeated smilingly.
The job required no great amount of pump-work either, for this Miss Sadie dearly loved the sound of her own voice and was gratefully glad to tell him all she knew of the stranger who favoured such painful manicuring processes and who so enjoyed a moving picture show.
Illness in the abode of another has a romantic flavor that home-grown maladies lack. When Dr. Adair and Isaac Lavinski made their rounds at nine o'clock, they found Nance bending over a steaming tub, washing out a heavy comfort. "What are you doing here?" demanded Isaac in stern surprise. "Manicuring my finger-nails," she said, with an impudent grin, as she straightened her tired shoulders.
"And manicuring?" suggested Sister Anne. Sam exclaimed in horror. "You!" he cried roughly. "For you! Quite impossible!" "Why for me?" said the girl. In the distress at the thought Sam was jabbing his stick into the gravel walk as though driving the manicuring idea into a deep grave. He did not see that the girl was smiling at him mockingly. "You?" protested Sam.
There were requests for all sorts of services such as hair dressing, manicuring and countless small labors which affluent students were glad to turn over to their needy classmates. Grace and Louise Sampson spent many hours of time and thought upon the new venture. It required tact and judgment to select the various girls for the various labors. First there was the customer to please.
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