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Updated: October 5, 2025
Sara has improved in the last seven or eight years." She said this somewhat loftily. Mrs. Rowe-Martin was most amiable. "She has, indeed, thanks to propinquity." "And her own splendid intelligence," added Mrs. Wrandall. "Isn't it wonderful how superior they are when it comes to intelligence?" cried her friend, almost plaintively. "I've noticed it in shop-girls and manicures, over and over again."
I am sure if the members of the House of Commons were deprived of their seats even for one session, we would, without further ado have a Bill enacted making it criminal for shopkeepers to make slaves of their employees, or individuals to patronize such establishments. Were shop-girls provided with even the commonest of seats, untold numbers of crimes and diseases would be heard of no more.
But the fact that a small boy sometimes sees something funny at a funeral, or a bevy of giggling shop-girls may be sitting in the gallery at a fashionable wedding, argues little in respect to the solemnity or beauty of the service itself. What are the celebrated cases the trials that attract the attention and interest of the public?
The first afternoon, therefore, on which she thought her aunt could spare her, she begged leave to go and see Mary. Mrs. Wardour yielded it, but not very graciously. She had, indeed, granted that Miss Marston was not like other shop-girls, but she did not favor the growth of the intimacy, and liked Letty's going to her less than Mary's coming to Thornwick.
By this we mean shop-girls, clerks in banks, lawyer's clerks, young artists, and physicians, all, in fact, who make their bread by the sweat of their brows. As for the privileged classes, they go from London to their estates, put on plain clothes, and fish or bunt, or the ladies go into the woods to pick wild-flowers.
My other reading-matter at that time consisted mainly of dime novels, borrowed from the hired men, and newspapers in which the servants gloated over the adventures of poor but virtuous shop-girls.
"If you are interested in shop-girls, Miss President and ladies, you will like to know that I am one, at least a silent partner and co-worker in a small fancy store at the West End." "No!" exclaimed the amazed club with one voice; and, satisfied with this sensational beginning Ella went on. "I really am, and you have bought some of my fancy-work. Isn't that a good joke?
Did these people want war with England or with anyone? The laughter of the clerks and shop-girls swarming down the Friedrichstrasse, the peaceful enjoyment of the middle-class crowds of husbands and wives, lovers and sweethearts, steaming in the heat of brilliantly lighted beer-halls seemed to make my question preposterous. The spirit of the German people was essentially peaceful and democratic.
"So the idol has got tired of being worshipped," Mangan said, at last. "It is an odd thing. I wonder how many thousands of people there are in London not merely shop-girls who consider you the most fortunate person alive in whose imagination you loom larger than any saint or soldier, any priest or statesman, of our own time.
I'm no better than the poor shop-girls that go trudging by in the cold at six o'clock in the morning ugh! it makes me shiver to think of it. I know if I had to do that I shouldn't be good at all. Well, I'd like to give to poor people, if I knew any." At this moment the door opened and the maid entered. "Betty, do you know any poor people I ought to get things for, this Christmas?"
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