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A SEASON WITH THE DRESSMAKERS. 21
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Chapter Ii. Than I Know When Not A A Mor...
_and peasant shall stand side by side , and each shall be rewarded according- to his works .
whose I will friends now give must a brief ever sketch regret of the the day career in she luxurious left of a young the London nei p g erson bour- ,
, small hood Emil of tradesman y green B fields was in to one a seek m of arket two her living daug town hters of one of a of respectable the Midland . but in
counties . She came to learn the business of a dressmaker'a _iher west all -end the establishment affection and of fondness this great that metropolis doating , parents bearing could with
here "bestow with ; their whom great she coul anxiety d spen being d her , th Sundays at they . had no friends
- apprenticeshi dili At gent her and business p pains was -taking over she -, soon was , and reall made long y a great before very progress efficient the period , assistant was of very her .
_. in She the was case of a of most illness amiable her disposition kindness , could generous not to be a fault exceeded , and . But while kind and attentive , to others endure , Emil the y did confin not think ent
of sufficientl the work y of -room herself . I . have She could before not said she had no friends em in London in the Parks , so she but would to spend the time her Sunday I mention afternoon without in the walking least
thought of impropriety , , up : her object being merel , y to gain that fresh Being air however and exercise for and which decidedl she sig pretty hed in she vain was all the not week long .
permitted , to enj , young oy these harmless y rambles . , I use the word ' . permitted , " because , with all her good qualities , she had not ,
notice and unfortunatel In one his she of these leasing had y for attracte walks manners herself she d without , was moral and addressed , the at courage first total , b being y _, to absence a resist gentleman conscious of temptation anything , whose of it ; .
• offensive p in his conversation , threw her off her guard . fie parted accompanied , a meeting her during for the the following rest of Sunday her walk was , and appointed before , they and
a anoth short er distance for the one from after town that to , dine when at she a well was -known to accompany hotel . him _, Poor irl ! she was indeed in hih lee in anticipation of the
g gg convince day , as one her bri of ght the spot impropriety in her life of of slavery her conduct , nor , could as she any would one
a always doubt . rep " ly The , "He looked is too -for much day arrived of a gentleman , the third to of deserve their , inter such
view , and poor Emily started off with her new companion . was Returning thought at the bmany usual hour of her of companions the house at to nig be ht , flurried her manner and
excitedthough y she insisted that it was not so . She , met him by appointment the three succeeding Sundays ,
_^ each time accompanying him to some one of the suburbs of
A Season With The Dressmakers. 21
A SEASON WITH THE DRESSMAKERS . 21
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1863, page 21, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091863/page/21/
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