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The New Magdalen

CHAPTER XXVII
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I produced a favorable impression on them--especially on the wife.

I was literally friendless; I had no unwelcome relatives to follow me and claim me.

The wife was childless; the husband was a good-natured man.

It ended in their taking me away with them to try me in service.
"I have always felt the aspiration, no matter how low I may have fallen, to struggle upward to a position above me; to rise, in spite of fortune, superior to my lot in life.

Perhaps some of my father's pride may be at the root of this restless feeling in me.


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