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She bought presents for everybody, for the cross landlady, for the untidy servant girl, for Sophie Blake, and Flora Ross, for the maid at Saint Cuthbert's who waited upon the Staff-Room, with a selection of dainty oddments for girl friends at Brussels, and when the presents themselves had been secured she bought prettily tinted paper, and fancy ribbons, and decorated name cards for the adornment of the parcels.
The mistresses came in for their own share of adulation "Darling Miss Gifford, I do adore you!" "Miss Gifford, darling, you are prettier than ever!" "Oh, Miss Gifford, I was dying to see you!" The morning flew past, and lunch-time brought the gathering of mistresses in staff-room.
She was a machine wound up to work steadily from Monday morning until Friday night, and absurdly ready to run down when the time was over. Every morning after breakfast she started forth with Miss Rhodes, by foot if the weather were fine, by Tube if wet; every mid-day she dined in the Staff-Room with the fifteen other mistresses, and gulped down a cup of chicory coffee.
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