[Happy Pollyooly by Edgar Jepson]@TWC D-Link bookHappy Pollyooly CHAPTER VIII 2/16
They consulted all Pollyooly's friends; and all of them promised to look out for work for her; but it seemed likely to be hard to find. The Honourable John Ruffin seeing Millicent often, watched and studied her carefully in the hope that his mind would produce a happy thought in the way of work for her.
He perceived that she needed some well paid sinecure. Then one morning when Pollyooly was clearing away his breakfast, he said: "I have been considering Millicent, and I should be charmed to let her stay here.
You and she are such admirable foils to one another's fairness and darkness that no cultivated eye can rest on you together without great pleasure.
But I don't think that you are doing the right thing in trying to find her a job like your own.
She couldn't keep it. She is not a stern red Deeping like you.
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