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The Odd Women

CHAPTER IV
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They gave her brandy, and she came back again.' 'They compelled her to ?' 'Well, no, it was her own wish.

Her "book of takings" wasn't very good, poor thing, and if it didn't come up to a certain figure at the end of the week she would lose her place.

She lost it after all.

They told her she was too weak.

After Christmas she was lucky enough to get a place as a lady's-maid at twenty-five pounds a year--at Scotcher's she had fifteen.


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