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28 INEANT SEAMSTRESSES.
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Into One Of Those Narrow, Gloomy Streets...
di cise , stion and consequentl assimilation y , there etc . " is But / " a what deficiency a very of long nervous 1 way power we are for
ge , getting "We paused from Cro on k the er's stairs Buildings , and . indeed , and in realit the y utter , we had darkness often
w to pause nearl ere trod we reached a the child highest and round the invisible . In morsel thereupon threatened y , in half upon formed speech , , that if " we came that again "
we should make a " grand mistake : " of course we moved more step cautiously had afterward not calculated . But our on thi courage s E seemed tian _loomy evaporating and we at fancied every
we heard ; we voiceswithin certain closed gyp doors which g we passed , that med hardlhuman , But the comparative respectability of the
seey . t nei hiev ghbourhood es' denno had haunt been of prostitution certified to , us no by hiding the police place : here of murder was no ;
b nothing the intemp but , the erance most of abj the ect inhabitants poverty and . destitution Our labor , was induced not in chiefl vain y ,
us as y were to the our misg door ivings where . A we wail would ing cont be . ention A li of ht child limm -voices ered guide on us d gg
from the roof very which was welcome enough , and , deeming it possible that we miht have to make a hasty retreatwe noted the path by
g , had which become we had accustomed ascended ; to this the was darkness less . difficult We then now knocked that our at eyes the
door and opened it , to the consternation of the little girls and the half demented old woman who ruled over them . Our courage came fears
back in force the moment we opened the door , or rather our sewing didn fled . 't do On executed no inquiring whit there e work , b , y the , way " they old of woman apology " did slops , rep if lied we for could warehouses shortl get y that som . " e " p This they lain
we It had was alread a small y perceived and . wretched apartment , containing a bed , very
were and one three chair low , the forms seat of which authority were . There perpetuall was y no tumbling table , but there over , /
and on these forms were , seated eleven " little girls ; " the four on the front form could hardlof themhave seen six years , one of
perhaps them was and " going there was of y _Rve , one any . " The well four , behaved behind g were irl on about the hinder seven
-The most eldest seat , , "who irl * mi had ght evidentl be ten y , very all and the two fixing others and a year all the or responsibility two younger , .
g tion and was she the also onl had y one the among " taking the in . " number They that were had " on money slops ; remunera " the little - ;
was steadil things the y on rule at the _work but front on the form " little band doing hemmers and the gusset hemming were and continuall seam , while . " y the Perfect transgressing others silence were
it . They all , seemed in the utmost distress : one declaring , with her another cused many own protesting tears self , that , l and ained that somebod so that that she y a was " had neig didn a hbour made 't story make her had that her lose said she lose her " had she it needle , for told hadn she . " ; 't the lost Then done ac it
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28 Ineant Seamstresses.
28 INEANT SEAMSTRESSES .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1859, page 28, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091859/page/28/
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