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What Diantha Did

CHAPTER XI
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I must just push and push and push--a little more every day." And then she would draw on all her powers to reason with, laugh at, and persuade some dissatisfied girl; or, hardest of all, to bring in a new one to fill a vacancy.
She enjoyed the details of her lunch business, and studied it carefully; planning for a restaurant a little later.

Her bread was baked in long cylindrical closed pans, and cut by machinery into thin even slices, not a crust wasted; for they were ground into crumbs and used in the cooking.
The filling for her sandwiches was made from fish, flesh, and fowl; from cheese and jelly and fruit and vegetables; and so named or numbered that the general favorites were gradually determined.
Mr.Thaddler chatted with her over the counter, as far as she would allow it, and discoursed more fully with his friends on the verandah.
"Porne," he said, "where'd that girl come from anyway?
She's a genius, that's what she is; a regular genius." "She's all that," said Mr.Porne, "and a benefactor to humanity thrown in.

I wish she'd start her food delivery, though.

I'm tired of those two Swedes already.

O--come from?
Up in Jopalez, Inca County, I believe." "New England stock I bet," said Mr.Thaddler.


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