[The Woman’s Way by Charles Garvice]@TWC D-Link bookThe Woman’s Way CHAPTER I 11/26
I know French and one or two other foreign languages, and although I have 'little Latin and less Greek,' I manage to do what Mr.Bishop wants.
He gives me a pound a week; and that's a very good salary, isn't it? You see, so many persons can do what I am doing." "Yes, I suppose so," Mr.Clendon assented; he glanced at the slight, girlish figure in its black dress, at the beautiful face, with its clear and sweetly-grave eyes, the soft, dark hair, the mobile lips with a little droop at the ends which told its story so plainly to the world-worn old man who noted it.
"And you work in the Reading Room all day ?" "Yes," said Celia, cheerfully, and with something like pride.
"It is a splendid place, isn't it? Sometimes I can scarcely work, I'm so interested in the people there.
There are so many types; and yet there is a kind of sameness in them all.
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