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"George and I have been talking over the matter, and I told him he wasn't to feel discouraged at a first refusal, if he is resolved to have a shop-girl for his wife." "What! Mr. Morris and you have been discussing me, have you?" "Is there anything forbidden in that, Miss Earle? You must remember that George and I are very, very old friends, old and dear friends. Did you refuse him on my account?
I say, she went into a great dry-goods store in New York, as sales-woman." "Bless my soul! You don't mean a shop-girl?" "That's what I said, isn't it? And why not?" "Oh, well! but, shade of Susan Brown! Ichabod! what is the feminine of Ichabod, by the way, Trednoke? But, seriously, it's too bad. Susan may have been fickle, but she was always aristocratic. And now her daughter is a shop-girl.
Thornburgh was left protesting to the vicar's incredulous ears that never never as long as she lived would she have Mrs. Seaton inside her doors again. 'Her manners cried the vicar's wife, fuming 'her manners would disgrace a Whinborough shop-girl. She has none positively none! Then suddenly her round comfortable face brightened and broadened out into a beaming smile
For the shop-girl, as for the needlewoman or general worker of any description whatsoever, over-time is the standing difficulty, and a grievance almost impossible to redress. That an act of parliament forbids the employment of any young person under eighteen more than eleven hours a day, makes small difference. Inspectors cannot be everywhere at once, and violations are the rule.
If you have been playing with this shop-girl I cannot help it, and I beg that you will tell me no more about it, and do not, to my face, speak of her as a lady." "I have not been playing with her, I think," said Arnold gravely; "I have been very serious with her." "Everybody nowadays is a young lady.
Or the pale shop-girl, who complains if a breath of morning air strays into the suburban train where she is seated? As people who habitually use such “relishes” as Chutney and Worcestershire are incapable of appreciating delicately prepared food, so the ”soft” mortals who have accustomed themselves to a perpetual August are insensible to fine shadings of temperature.
Perhaps there will even come a time when no one goes to churches here." She: "Who goes to church! The girls to meet their lovers; the young men to see a pretty shop-girl. We laugh at the priests." "Why?" "Because they are ridiculous: if it thunders, they say at once that it is a sign from God. The sky happens to be flaming red, like it was last October.
"Any man might be proud to marry a lady like Miss Earle." "A lady! Much of a lady she is! Why, she is one of your own shop-girls. You know it." "Shop-girls?" cried Morris, in astonishment. "Yes, shop-girls. You don't mean to say that she has concealed that fact from you, or that you didn't know it by seeing her in the store?" "A shop-girl in my store?" he murmured, bewildered.
The cabs hurried past, and pedestrians went by in twos and threes or solitary; soldiers walking vaguely, seeking cheap pleasures, or more gaily with adoring maidens; tired business men; journeying towards Victoria Station; a desolate shop-girl, in dreary virtue defiant of mankind, but still unblessed; the Noah's ark figure of a policeman, tramping emptily, standing wearily by turns, to keep public order.
From the first her ladyship had been unable to bring herself to tolerate Toni; and had lost no opportunity of spreading abroad Toni's rash admission as to the nature of her cousin's employment with the immediate result that in a good many people's eyes Toni herself was looked upon as an unusually fortunate shop-girl raised by a stroke of good luck to a position which she was quite unsuited to adorn.
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