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Excerpt from The Wyndham Family: A Story of Modern Life
Crying, Mary? Inquired a bolder-looking girl, some years her senior, who entered the kitchen abruptly, and cast an inquisitive glance at her fellow-servant and if you have been crying, She added, with some good-nature, mixed with a dash of bitterness, I am sure no wonder; that is, if you are given to that sort of thing.
I am not given to crying, ' said Mary, but how should you know what I may have been crying about I I can guess, I dare say. Such a life as this is I But come, you'll never get those things washed to-night.
What sort of life! What do you just mean? Replied the girl.
Why, something very different from life upstairs, don't you think so 2 Of course; that is because we are servants. I know that. I never think of crying because I am a servant, Rachel. We are not unkindly treated here.
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