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Marcella

CHAPTER IV
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But we're going to begin by giving the workers better wages, and in time we hope to teach them the higher kinds of work." "Lor'!" said Mrs.Jellison.

"But I'm not one o' them as kin do with changes." She took up her plait and looked at it thoughtfully.
"Eighteen-pence a score.

It wor that rate when I wor a girl.

An' it ha' been dibble--dibble--iver sense; a penny off here, an' a penny off there, an' a hard job to keep a bite ov anythink in your mouth." "Then I may put down your name among our workers, Mrs.Jellison ?" said Marcella, rising and smiling down upon her.
"Oh, lor', no; I niver said that," said Mrs.Jellison, hastily.

"I don't hold wi' shilly-shallyin' wi' yer means o' livin'.


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