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Updated: June 9, 2025
And suddenly she saw that memories had been gathering here; that Saltman's hard-worked stenographer had grown intimate and dear.... Her hand closed over Hen's, and she was speaking hurriedly: "Hen, do you know you're a great old dear?
But twice, without the nurse's knowledge, Miss Masters took her rest-time every afternoon from three to seven, rules were suspended to admit Miss Sadie Whirtle, of Baird & Himmel's, an enormous, snapping, red-cheeked girl she proved to be, whose ample Semitic countenance gave a copious background for violet talcum, but who said nothing wittier in Vivian's hearing than "Very pleased to make your acquaintance, I'm sure" and once to admit Miss Henrietta Cooney, of Saltman's bookstore.
If her "arguments" followed close in the footsteps of Hugo, for Hen was surprisingly well-informed in unexpected ways, it must have been some quality in her, something or other in her underlying "attitude," that invested her words with a new horsepower of solace. And Saltman's best stenographer actually produced an argument that Hugo had altogether passed by.
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