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The Odd Women

CHAPTER XX
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Servants are decidedly of that opinion; we have a great difficulty in getting them to stay here.

The reason seems to me that they miss the congenial gossip of the area door.

At this moment we are without a domestic.

I found she compensated herself for disadvantages by stealing my tobacco and cigars.

She went to work with such a lack of discretion--abstracting half a pound of honeydew at a time--that I couldn't find any sympathy for her.


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