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Jezebel’s Daughter

CHAPTER II
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To recognize the claims of justice was, with a man of Mr.Wagner's character, to act on his convictions without a moment's needless delay.

Enlarging his London business at the time, he divided the new employments at his disposal impartially between men and women alike.
The scandal produced in the city by this daring innovation is remembered to the present day by old men like me.

My master's audacious experiment prospered nevertheless, in spite of scandal.
"If my husband had lived," my aunt continued, "it was his intention to follow the example, which he has already set in London, in our house at Frankfort.

There also our business is increasing, and we mean to add to the number of our clerks.

As soon as I am able to exert myself, I shall go to Frankfort, and give German women the same opportunities which my husband has already given to English women in London.


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