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I set up, 'on her own account, as they say, a little sempstress of fifteen really a miracle of beauty, with whom I fell desperately in love.
"Yes," resumed the sempstress; "a letter of his, a letter in itself quite insignificant, was found in the house of a person arrested last year for conspiracy; and Remi, in consequence, remained a month in prison." "That is true, but the injustice of his implication was easily shown, and he was set at liberty."
I am afraid she had no other female accomplishments than those by which the sempstress or embroideress earns her daily bread. That sort of work she loved, and she did it deftly. But if she had not been profitlessly plagued by masters, Cecilia Travers had been singularly favoured by her father's choice of a teacher: no great merit in him either.
My father was an obscure person barely above a slave; he had in fact been one south of Xois and Thmuis; my mother a common sempstress.
See how the housemaid works, up at six every morning, and toiling up stairs and down stairs till near midnight. You own that you cannot do anything for the sempstress and the housemaid. Why then trouble yourself about the factory child? Take care that by protecting one class you do not aggravate the hardships endured by the classes which you cannot protect.
"Alas, mademoiselle!" said the sempstress: "you appear to have too good a heart, for me to let you entertain such a wish particularly now." "What do you mean?" "I hope sincerely, mademoiselle," proceeded Mother Bunch, with deep sadness, "that you may never know what it is to want work, when labor is your only resource."
His old neighbour, Widow Simmons, the sempstress, who had served, in her day, the very tip-top revellers of the Temple, with ruffs, cuffs, and bands, distinguished more deeply the sort of attention paid by the females of quality, who so regularly visited David Ramsay's shop, to its inmates.
The wife of one of these people, for instance, makes and attends the fire, cooks the victuals, looks after the children, and is sempstress to her whole family; while her husband is labouring abroad for their subsistence.
She was her mistress's factotum her cook, housemaid, sempstress, and confidential adviser; in addition to which she was somewhat of a bore, being stubborn and opinionated, but a good and faithful servant on the whole. The individual who was presently introduced was a bustling little old gentleman with a shining bald head and a cheerful countenance.
Peter had left her address somewhere, but it was not at hand; neither was her house available to telephone. Lonegan took down the Warsaw directory, and came finally to the street-number after this line: "Bertha Solwicz, sempstress." She, too, was almost a stranger in Warsaw, and lonely.
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