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Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper

CHAPTER VI
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"We're in a most delightful place, and at such a convenient distance from the city.

Just get into the Frankford omnibus, which starts from Hall's, in Second street above Market, every half hour, and you will come to our very door.

And I shall be so delighted to have a visit from you." In moving from the city, I took with me two good domestics, who had lived in my family for over a year.

Each had expressed herself as delighted at the prospect of getting into the country, and I was delighted to think they were so well satisfied, for I had feared lest they would be disinclined to accompany us.
About a month after our removal, one of them, who had looked dissatisfied about something, came to me and said: "I want to go back to the city, Mrs.Smith; I don't like living in the country." "Very well," I replied.

"You must do as you please.


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