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The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig

CHAPTER VI
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As there was no answer, she opened the door.

On the bed, sobbing heart-brokenly, lay Selina, crushed by the hideous injustice of being condemned capitally merely for tearing off a bit of leather which the shoemaker had neglected to make secure.
"Selina," said Margaret.
The maid turned her big, homely, swollen face on the pillow, ceased sobbing, gasped in astonishment.
"I've come to beg your pardon," said Margaret, not as superior to inferior, nor yet with the much-vaunted "just as if they were equals," but simply as one human being to another.

The maid sat up.

One of her braids had come undone and was hanging ludicrously down across her cheek.
"I insulted you, and I'm horribly ashamed." Wistfully: "Will you forgive me ?" "Oh, law!" cried the maid despairingly, "I'm dreaming." And she threw herself down once more and sobbed afresh.
Margaret knelt beside the bed, put her hand appealingly on the girl's shoulder.

"Can you forgive me, Selina ?" said she.


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