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The Unclassed

CHAPTER XVI
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I go in to-morrow.

It won't be a over easy place, neither.

I've to do all the cleaning in the house, and there's a baby to look after when I'm not in the shop." "And what will they give you ?" "Ten shillings a month for the first half-year; then a rise." "And you're satisfied ?" "Oh, it'll do till something better turns up.

Oh, I say, I met your friend just after I'd come away." "Did you ?" said Ida quietly.
"Yes; and I told him he could tell his friend where I was, if he liked." "His friend ?" "The Irishman, you know," explained Sally, moving about the room.

"I told you he'd been asking after me." Ida seemed all at once to awake from a dream.


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