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The Valley of the Moon

CHAPTER 1
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The women farther away continued unsteadily at their work, losing movements to the extent of a minute's set-back to the totality of the efficiency of the fancy-starch room.
"Enough to kill a dog," the girl muttered, thumping her iron down on its rest with reckless determination.

"Workin' girls' life ain't what it's cracked up.

Me to quit--that's what I'm comin' to." "Mary!" Saxon uttered the other's name with a reproach so profound that she was compelled to rest her own iron for emphasis and so lose a dozen movements.
Mary flashed a half-frightened look across.
"I didn't mean it, Saxon," she whimpered.

"Honest, I didn't.

I wouldn't never go that way.


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