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Grivois took her departure, a few minutes before Mother Bunch left. After she had again endeavored to cheer up the orphans, the sewing-girl descended the stairs, not without difficulty, for, in addition to the parcel, which was already heavy, she had fetched down from her own room the only blanket she possessed thus leaving herself without protection from the cold of her icy garret.
He's a kind of dreamer an impracticable man. He pays lots of poor people's rents, and I try to show him that he is merely encouraging idleness and crime. But I can't make him see it. He declares that, if a sewing-girl makes but two dollars a week and has a helpless mother and three small sisters to support besides rent and fuel, and so on, it's not encouraging idleness to help her with the rent.
"It is only my court, who are getting impatient," said Cephyse and this time she could laugh. "Heavens!" cried the sewing-girl, in alarm; "if they were to come here in search of you?" "No, no never fear." "But listen! do you not hear those steps? they are coming along the passage they are approaching. Pray, sister, let me go out alone, without being seen by all these people."
Agricola was moved by these affectionate and judicious expressions of an excellent creature, who reasoned from her heart; and he began to view with more seriousness the advice which she had given him. Perceiving that she had shaken him, the sewing-girl went on to say: "And then, bear your fellow-workman, Remi, in recollection." "Remi!" said Agricola, anxiously.
"Agricola," said the soldier, roughly and severely, "that remark is cowardly, you are insulting." "Father " "Cowardly!" resumed the soldier, angrily; "because it is cowardice to wish to frighten a man from his duty insulting! because you think me capable of being so frightened." "Oh, M. Dagobert!" exclaimed the sewing-girl, "you do not understand Agricola."
Agricola was moved by these affectionate and judicious expressions of an excellent creature, who reasoned from her heart; and he began to view with more seriousness the advice which she had given him. Perceiving that she had shaken him, the sewing-girl went on to say: "And then, bear your fellow-workman, Remi, in recollection." "Remi!" said Agricola, anxiously.
"Agricola," said the soldier, roughly and severely, "that remark is cowardly, you are insulting." "Father " "Cowardly!" resumed the soldier, angrily; "because it is cowardice to wish to frighten a man from his duty insulting! because you think me capable of being so frightened." "Oh, M. Dagobert!" exclaimed the sewing-girl, "you do not understand Agricola."
"Oh! be satisfied!" said the sewing-girl, both affected and amazed by the sorrowful expression of Florine's countenance; "I will not be ungrateful. No one in the world but Agricola shall know that I have seen you." "Thank you thank you, mademoiselle," cried Florine, with emotion. "Do you thank me?" said the other, astonished to see the large tears roll down her cheeks. "Yes!
If sensitive and retiring, they learn to be very chary about asking for anything beyond what is conceded, and bear, rather than suggest or complain." "I've no patience with that kind of sensitiveness," replied Mrs. Lowe; "it's simply ridiculous; and not only ridiculous, but wrong. Is every sewing-girl who comes into your house to be treated like an honored guest?"
"A girl I used to know back in the country tried to kill herself. She wrote me a letter, but it didn't get to me till after midnight, so I called up Max and got him to go with me down to the Rookeries district where she lives. Poor little Maggie! She got caught in one of those sewing-girl traps." "Some kind of machinery?" "Machinery? You don't know much about what goes on in your town, do you?"
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