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It was cheap, and he had need of all the money he could save from everyday expenses. Pennyloaf would go en with her shirt-making, of course, and all they wanted was a roof over their heads at night. And in truth he was fond of Pennyloaf.
"And you and Anna will walk to the Registry Office next week?" said Anthony, sourly, as he took his tea. "It can't be next week," said Edith Craven's quiet voice, interposing. "Anna's got to work out her shirt-making time. She only left the tailoresses and began this new business ten days ago. And she was to have a month at each." Marcella's lifted eyebrows asked for explanations.
"But the best parlor maid job here is $60 a year. And over at Basingstoke in England I've one waiting for me at $150 a year. If you want to live nowadays I suppose you've gotta be lonesome." Next day at the alley of the employment bureau, I met the little girl of the day before. She said a little dully: "Well, I took shirt-making Edinburgh." Instead of migrating, a girl may marry.
Birkenfeld had persuaded Aunt Ninette to leave Dora entirely at liberty both morning and evening, and when in the afternoon she took her sewing and sat with the family under the apple-tree, she found that even shirt-making might be an agreeable occupation, under such favorable circumstances as these.
"You 'd have been welcome to the whole job. As it is, I've done them so carelessly that I know mommy will scold me. But I wasn't going to work myself to death for him!" "I should have loved I like shirt-making," fibbed Tabitha. "And I hate it! Forty-two have I made this year, and mommy has six more cut out." There was a moment's silence, and then Tabitha said, "Janice."
"Yes." "And that she has supported herself by shirt-making." "Yes." "But that she had become too feeble for work, and is dependent on a younger sister, who earns a few dollars, weekly, at book-folding." "The simple story, I believe," said the doctor. Mrs. Carleton was silent for most of the way home; but thought was busy. She had seen a phase of life that touched her deeply.
"Oh, if you mean that I go in for 'cases' and 'causes' too," cried Lady Leven, interrupting, "of course I do I can't be left alone. I must dance as my generation pipes." "Which means," said her husband, drily, "that she went for two days filling soda-water bottles the week before last, and a day's shirt-making last week.
"So much the better, dear mamma, for if the new judge of the Orphans' Court should give a decision in our favor, as he must, when he hears the evidence, old and new, you and I can move right into it and need not then enter the shirt-making line of business!" "Heaven grant it, my dear!
She had drawn the threads and basted the wristbands and gussets for Betty to stitch, as they had come to shirt-making. The new ones of thick cotton cloth would be good for winter wear. One had always to think ahead in this world if one wanted things to come out even. Then she went out to the kitchen, and there was a gay chattering, as if a colony of chimney swallows had met on a May morning.
She now learned for the first time, that Dora was to earn her living by sewing; and that for this reason her aunt felt obliged to keep her so closely to her shirt-making. Mrs. Birkenfeld took a warm interest in Dora.
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