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238 SEAMSTRESSES AGAIN.
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were new to _Iier . She liad continued in respectable service in different accumulated branches little of the a paral same ytic famil father y for having nearl y absorbed forty years most , but of had her
, saving's . However , she had a weekly pension from the family she had served so faithfully and so long . In the house in which
she occupied a comfortable apartment , lived one of Mr . Driver ' s unfortunate hands . But the woman was ill , and to carry Iier work
to the warehouse was one of the many kind offices which . Dorothy had undertaken for her relief . This was the first time she had
ever trodden these dismal streets , and it seemed to her that she was in a _strange land .
Now she met a couple of women bearing * immense bags , full as long , and quite twice as wide as any sack she had ever seen , and she
wondered in her simple soul whatever there could be inside . If she liad inquired , anybody would have told her that the women were
sweaters' factotums , and that the bags contained men ' s and women ' s felt or straw hats ; and they would have informed her , perhaps ,
that owing to the peculiar mode in which it was necessary to carry these bags , in front , many "women suffered severe internal injury .
And then there passed by a Ibevy of French polishers , carrying large looking-glass framesor small ones oddly strung together like
gar-, lands , which were carried in either hand . Dorothy looked even yet more pityingly on little girls and boys shouldering and lifting
bunthe dles gratification of parasol sticks of stroking : these a she doll jud ' s head ged quite or sending truly a had top never about had its
business . Sad and sick at heart , she hastened home . Ere she proceeded to the second floor with the offending waistcoat ,
she turned the key in her own door , as , perhaps , her fire needed attention . It was a neat , cosy apartment , and the few articles of
furniture it contained had evidently been used to good society . Not that they ever could have looked more contented , or ever have
borne a higher polish . An old-fashioned arm-chair received Dorothy ' s comely form as welcomely as it had once done
quaintly-apparelled dames , such , as were your great-grandmother and mine . This chair had long been in disuse ; like un upright chair as it was , it
had refused to bend to the requirements of the age in which , it had become fashionable to loll instead of sit . A carpet of _qiiality _, which
had evidently been bereaved of its better half , still sufficed nearly to cover the floorand though it had grown very bald , yet there were
, traces of former magnificence . On the chimney-piece were some old ornaments wliich had stood before costly mirrors a long time ago .
There was the pasteboard man with the rabbits at his back , and there was the gipsy , and there were shells , actually worn _, so long ago
it was since they had enjoyed a briny bath . Above all these were . ranged various likenesses in black and gold , which _woiild do almost
as well for one person as another , the difference being one of costume chiefly . Yet with what reverence did Dorothy regard these : how
respectfully slie dusted them , and how she would tell you that this was
238 Seamstresses Again.
238 SEAMSTRESSES AGAIN .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1859, page 238, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121859/page/22/
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