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The Simpkins Plot

CHAPTER V
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Is your name Bridget or Mary ?" "It's Sabina they call me." "You're not a bad-looking girl, Sabina; and if you'd attend to your business instead of going to sleep in the middle of the day, you might die a rich woman yet." "I would not, then.

How would the like of me be rich ?" "You certainly won't be," said Meldon, "if you don't do your work." "The potatoes is in the pot," said Sabina.
"They may be; but Mr.Doyle will be looking for more than potatoes at dinner time.

He doesn't look as if he lived entirely on potatoes." Sabina grinned.

Doyle was a portly man.
"It won't take me long to fry a couple of rashers," she said, "once the grease is hot." "And is fried bacon and potatoes all you're going to give the poor man?
What wages does he pay you ?" "Six pounds." "Very well.

Now listen to me, Sabina.


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