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184 A SEASON WITH THE DBESSMAKERS.
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Chapter'vi. • I " Milliners Have Already...
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R next morning t Street , when se ( o , f course would ui dr te ive unlooked with all for y sp eed t so to ear her l y
an egen hour , ) to see that her young peop q le were all at their duties ; abou for she t her was hau h t ted to perpe rob her tually and by t the he one idea fac t t of t every their one not
being at wo soug rk at 6 a . m ., during ; the busy very season , she construed and property into to a one species , a por or two t of ion robb charities of which ery . She she Having le died ft to possessed never a church married of at very Bromp she large lef ton t
. , who her busin had ess alread , stock married , & c , to a her traveller first han from d , a French of the woman lare ,
wholesale city houses y . Of this old house under new manage g - ment I shall have something more to say before concluding .
Chapter VII . in I began Great busine Portland ss for Street mysel bu f t in being April , patronized 1853 , at a almost private exclu house
t sivel o the y ir b dressmaker y the nobility liv and ing , in aris so tocracy unfashionable , many of a whom street objected , I soon
amoun removed t of to credi 68 , t _£ I _Tew was Bond obliged Street to g . ive If , and I excep the t the s of fearful about £ 300 In bad debtsbusiness went on steadily in that
house for nearly th , my yearswhen I suddenl very y found myself in a very embarrassing situation , , owing to its being discovere d d
j ust t t died he p , erson had f f rom some whom time I ha p d t t been ken the pay house ing no , and rent who to the superior landlordthough regularlreceiving mineTh ©
difficulties this involved , forced me to y suspend my business . for a time , and being attacked soon after by a dangerous illnes l s
impaired which still by further what I weakened had a throug constitution h in the already course of irre " t Life rievab in y a
Work and ill -room -health , " after I was strugg gone forced ling in at vain last for to a relinquish time against business losses
, altogeth Probabl er , after having would continued like to know it for a about little seven of the years mode . in
y many exposed which I conducted those of an others establishment In the first of my lace own , then after having whatever so
might be the pressure of . business , I never p required after , any one the to 9
be at worktill after the 8 o _' clock breakfastnor clock c and confidentlassert , that lad
com o _' e forward supper and ; say I I can disappointed y her of her dress no or bonnet y can
184 A Season With The Dbessmakers.
184 A SEASON WITH THE DBESSMAKERS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 2, 1863, page 184, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02111863/page/40/
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