[Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper by T. S. Arthur]@TWC D-Link bookTrials and Confessions of a Housekeeper CHAPTER XII 10/11
In an hour my tray was empty, and my fish sold at fair prices. "You do not know, madam," continued the woman, "how much good a few kindly spoken words, that cost nothing, or a little generous regard for us, does our often discouraged hearts.
But these we too rarely meet.
Much oftener we are talked to harshly about our exorbitant prices--called a cheating set--or some such name that does not sound very pleasant to our ears.
That there are many among us who have no honesty, nor, indeed, any care about what is right, is too true.
But all are not so.
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