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Emily Fox-Seton

CHAPTER Five
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Her impression of the world was that people were really very amiable, as a rule.

They were always good to her, at least, she thought, and it did not occur to her that if she had not paid her way so remarkably well by being useful they might have been less agreeable.

Never once had she doubted that Lady Maria was the most admirable and generous of human beings.

She was not aware in the least that her ladyship got a good deal out of her.

In justice to her ladyship, it may be said that she was not wholly aware of it herself, and that Emily absolutely enjoyed being made use of.
This morning, however, when she got up, she found herself more tired than she ever remembered being before, and it may be easily argued that a woman who runs about London on other people's errands often knows what it is to be aware of aching limbs.


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