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The feeling of mutual antagonism was increased. On the other hand, his interest in Drouet's little shop-girl grew in an almost evenly balanced proportion. That young lady, under the stress of her situation and the tutelage of her new friend, changed effectively. She had the aptitude of the struggler who seeks emancipation. The glow of a more showy life was not lost upon her.
The day following Stephen's visit was one of many spent by Lady Barbara in working at "home," as she called the simple apartment in which Martha had given her shelter. With the aid of a shop-girl whose mother Martha had known, she had found employment at Rosenthal's, on upper Third Avenue.
She retained the manners of a shop-girl. Her slightly artificial amiability, sometimes too humble, was as unpleasant as the spurious elegance of the shop; and her disdainful attitudes recalled the superb airs of the head saleswomen in the great dry-goods establishments, arrayed in black silk gowns, which they take off in the dressing-room when they go away at night who stare with an imposing air, from the vantage-point of their mountains of curls, at the poor creatures who venture to discuss prices.
And in no part of London are such men more numerous. When the shadows of evening fall their thoughts "lightly turn" to the tired shop-girl, just released from her long hours of standing and serving, and the surveillance perhaps of a tyrannical shop-walker who makes her life a burden. Her cheap black dress, pale face, and wistful eyes betray her.
'He has done for himself, but that was a nice little lad that you had up -too good for a common national school. Wherewith they departed, and found that Kalliope must have been on the watch, for she ran down to open the door to them, and the gladness which irradiated her face as Sir Jasper's first 'All right, lighted up her features, which were so unlike the shop-girl prettiness that Mr.
'You have accused me of a fearful crime a crime of which I am innocent and I'd rather work in a factory, or become a shop-girl in a department store, than stay longer in a house where such painful things have happened. Result, next Tuesday Fiametta de Belleville comes to me as my maid."
He felt the critical character of the period. She endeavored to stir, but it was useless. The whole strength of a man's nature was working. He had good cause to urge him on. He looked and looked, and the longer the situation lasted the more difficult it became. The little shop-girl was getting into deep water. She was letting her few supports float away from her.
He raised himself again, fixing his strange deep-set gaze upon her. "I never said " "No! To that length you didn't quite go. I admit it. You were able to get your way without it." He sank back in his chair again. "No, my remark had nothing to do with Chloe. I have never set eyes on her since I left you at Heston. But there was a girl, a shop-girl, a poor little thing, rather pretty.
"They would all say that a shop-girl had no right to try to teach school. Well, I'm much obliged to you, Miss Mitchell." "What are you going to do?" Miss Mitchell asked, anxiously, following her to the door. "I'm going to Mrs. Doty, to get some of the wrappers that mother works on, until something else turns up," replied Ellen. "It seems a pity." Ellen smiled bravely.
If an American and an English shop-girl were simultaneously married to peers of the realm, the odds would be a hundred to one in favour of the former in the race for self-identification with her new environment. The American facility of expression, if I do not err, springs largely from an amiable difference in temperament. The American is, on the whole, more genially disposed to all and sundry.
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