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166 WAREHOUSE SEAMSTRESSES.
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* nothing tlie conversation is heard save flags , the the quick women whirr beg of in the to needle yawn , , or and the by clapp and ing by and then there is
attendant on the " doctoring " process . Now a remore mark , good as " till Oh , I ' d ve ear had , I my wish tea it , was it ' s a tea shame time the "— kettle or , "I don shall 't boil do till no
one o ' clock , it was half past yesterday . " Innocent sir , these tim peop often e , le not mostl beg being in to indeed take able to tea their find at time last one , for meal and these , in of the course meals day , separatel , din it being e at y the . handier same It is
, y , into tern and more them as supper a and greeable , God on their to hel tu p w rn them ay aside home ! they to in the do the frequentl gin evenin palace g y . seem for It half " more puts a quar life dead " -
than alive , when , they leave work . " Oh , can't we have one of the windows open , " exclaims a beautiful
girl , " I ' m just stifled !" a " Oh child , pray with do ! " her gasps face a tied second , but look there s fri is htened a volley and of objections im- : says
ploring poor ly , " Pray don't ! you don up 't , know what g the face , -ache is , you can't think how a touch of air makes it begin . " Somebody * else
were p lace leads broug " rheumatics ht ht to on be b , y and ventilated nothing a third " else and etc . than fourth The sitting altercation protest in the that is draug interrup their ht colds , the ted
by p some oug one roaring out on , the stairs , " Order No . 2 ! " " Good g sible racious for , " " exclaims oasder No the 2 " beautiful " Wh g we irl alluded only had to , it and out who last is night respon . " -
by " Can one 't . " help Annie it , Annie gasps . , we : ; The must writer have y it wishes to stiffen it to , its be got borne to be in read mind y that she does not draw from imagination , every depiction is fact ,
unexaggerated The half dozen fact who . are in this order sew frantically , they well
know what " must" means . Some friendly hand , though herself behind are prepared , does the The " doctoring women are " as trembling with astonishing with excitement celerity , few the there hats
. are that would not—for the dreaded " slacks " are nearing , and on the The slightest mournful pretext stillness now the is hands now broken will " b have y a the heavy sack " . " lunge , "—
Annie is on the floor in a dead swoon ! The window is opened now , ache and a somewhat shawl is p after laced a beneath concussion Annie like 's that head . . Yes Ah , sprinkle that head a little will
water . You are amazed that nobody seems in , the least startled . They are used to itsir . Nevertheless , ye who deem it interesting
to see a lady faint , , come and look here . " She . is dead ! " Nonsense , sir , the women are laughing at you . lishe
_" But look at those expressionless eyes , those corpse-like ps , is—she must be—dead ! " Certainly not . The truth is she was then
she at the was Britannia up at work last by ni three ght and , and didn has ' and t not got the had home excitement suitable till * one nourishment , about and her , find then the closeness of the room
166 Warehouse Seamstresses.
166 WAREHOUSE SEAMSTRESSES .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1859, page 166, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051859/page/22/
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