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Updated: September 6, 2025
Lady d'Harville turned toward La Lorraine, much surprised at hearing her pronounce these two names. "You know La Goualeuse and a young workwoman named Rigolette?" demanded Clemence of La Lorraine. "Yes, madame. La Goualeuse dear little angel did last year for me bless her! according to her poor means that which you do for poor Jeanne.
Madame Latournelle and Madame Dumay, who were appointed to watch Modeste, had a certain assumed stiffness of demeanor and a quiver in their voices, which the suspected party did not notice, so absorbed was she in her embroidery. Modeste laid each thread of cotton with a precision that would have made an ordinary workwoman desperate.
"But the very next morning I ran to see my friend, the justice of the peace. He listened to me gravely, and, when I had concluded, "'How were you dressed? he inquired. "'All in black, I replied, 'very modestly, like a workwoman. "'Had you nothing on your person that could tempt a thief? "'Nothing. No watch-chain, no jewelry, no ear-rings even.
The customers who frequented the place, wholesale merchants for the most part, noted from and after the day of this interview a new workwoman, who, so far as her rough blouse permitted them to judge, seemed to be young and pretty, seated in a corner apart, beneath a window by the light of which she laboured.
She had invented a new pattern in feather-stitching which was greatly admired, and which she was secretly very proud of it was an intricate pattern, and it made a very good show. No other workwoman knew how to do it, and Grannie was very careful not to impart her secret to the trade.
My eyes were full of tears; but they were tears of gratitude and joy. After so many years of isolation, to meet with such a friend, so generous, and so devoted: it was like finding a family. For a few weeks, I thought that fate had relented at last. My friend was an excellent workwoman; but with some intelligence, and the will to learn, I soon knew as much as she did. "There was plenty of work.
"It is a house a few doors away and has been tenanted by a friend of mine, a young workwoman, who was married four days ago it is a quiet place, and the people keep to themselves, and do not trouble about their neighbours' affairs." "That will just suit me," Harry said. "I suppose there is no porter below, so that I can go in or out without being noticed."
They are pertinent in their application to all who add to their profits for the purpose of a grand aggregate, at the expense of reducing the pay, even a few cents, upon the hard-toiling workwoman, whose slender income, at best, is barely sufficient to procure the absolute necessaries of life.
Now, from a change in the market, it takes a clever and industrious workwoman to earn from three to four in the week, or less than an eighth of what she made easily a few years ago. The tide of prosperity came and went, as with our northern pitmen, and left nobody the richer.
Lennox stopped twisting the corkscrew into the bottle, and the low comedian, seizing the opportunity, murmured in his mechanical voice to the girl behind him, 'Open house! Of course, she's quite right. I knew there was a draught somewhere; I felt my hair blowing about. Everybody laughed, and the merriment still contributed to discountenance the workwoman.
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