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The Iron Heel

CHAPTER XII
17/42

Convinced of this, I toiled with him at the revolution, and did not exhaust my energy in alleviating the social ills that continuously arose from the injustice of the system.
I followed the Bishop into a small room, ten by twelve, in a rear tenement.

And there we found a little old German woman--sixty-four years old, the Bishop said.

She was surprised at seeing me, but she nodded a pleasant greeting and went on sewing on the pair of men's trousers in her lap.

Beside her, on the floor, was a pile of trousers.

The Bishop discovered there was neither coal nor kindling, and went out to buy some.
I took up a pair of trousers and examined her work.
"Six cents, lady," she said, nodding her head gently while she went on stitching.


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