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The Imperialist

CHAPTER XIII
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They raised it last month." "And how far would Advena be able to make that go, with servants getting the money they do and expecting the washing put out as a matter of course?
Do you remember Eliza, John, that we had when we were first married?
Seven dollars a month she got; she would split wood at a pinch, and I've never had one since that could do up shirts like her.

Three years and a half she was with me, and did everything, everything I didn't do.

But that was management, and Advena's no manager.

It would be me that would tell him, if I had the chance.

Then he couldn't say he hadn't been warned.


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