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Updated: May 20, 2025
But if Lizzie laughed out of her light lively heart, and declared she didn't believe what they said was true, and didn't care if it was, there were others not so good-natured as Lizzie, who, though often vastly entertained by Becky, were quite ready to believe that the spirit of mimicry she possessed had something lawless about it, especially when she broke forth into the slang of the street, "gutter-slang," the other parcel-girls called it, the lawlessness seemed to gather a sort of proof.
"A sharp one!" the saleswoman had called her, the other agreeing; and when the next day, which was also a rainy day, the little company gathered in the lunch-room again, and Lizzie brought forth a variety of pretty papers, there was a general watchfulness to see how much Becky knew, and what she would claim. Two other of the parcel-girls were now present.
She'll get what she can, and hold on to what she's got every time." "But she's awful good fun. Didn't she take off Matty Kelley's flat nose-y way of talkin' to a T?" "Didn't she!" and the two girls laughed anew at the recollection. Becky was the only one of the parcel-girls who was in the lunch-room when this talk about May-day took place.
"Where's the private room to give 'em in?" piped out one of the parcel-girls with a wink at the other. "In here!" cried Becky, with a sudden inspiration, jumping up and running into a little fitting-room that had that morning been assigned to her to sweep and put in order after the lunch hour. "Good for you!" cried Lizzie, with one of her laughs, as she followed her teacher.
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