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Hodge and His Masters

CHAPTER IX
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Of course these girls help cheerfully in the household, in the dairy, and so forth?
No.

Some are forced by necessity to assist in the household with unwilling hands: but few, indeed, enter the dairy.

All dislike the idea of manual labour, though never so slight.

Therefore they acquire a smattering of knowledge, and go out as governesses.

They earn but a small stipend in that profession, because they have rarely gone through a sufficiently strict course of study themselves.


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