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The Unclassed

CHAPTER XI
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I did not suit Mrs.Tootle." It was very pleasant to look down into her earnest face, and watch it as she spoke in this unrestrained way.

She seemed so slight and frail, evidently thought so depreciatingly of herself, looked as though her life had in it so little joy, that Waymark had speedily assumed a confident attitude, and gazed at her as a man does at one whom he would gladly guard and cherish.
"You were certainly unsuited for the work, in every way," he said, with a smile.

"Your efforts were quite wasted there.

Still, I am sorry you have left." "I am going into a family," were her next words, spoken almost cheerfully.

"It is in the country, in Essex.


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