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    TWO CHAPTERS ABOUT CHARWOMEN. 185

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    XXVIL—TWO CHAPTERS ABOUT CHARWOMEN.

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    Chapter I. MY EXPERIENCES OF THE CLASS.

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    Loud Roared The Tempest, Fast Fell The S...

    33 nt fiercer the Tempest Rose than "before

    , " When the Angel paused At a humble door

    And asked for refuge And help once more .

    A weary woman , Pale , worn and thin ,

    With the "brand upon her Of want and sin ,

    Heard the Child Angel And took her in .

    Took her in gently , And did her "best

    To dry her pinions ; And made her rest

    " With tender pity Upon her breast .

    " When the eastern morning Grew bright and red ,

    Up the first sunbeam The Angel fled ;

    Having kissed the woman And left her—dead .

    A , A . P .

    Two Chapters About Charwomen. 185

    TWO CHAPTERS ABOUT CHARWOMEN . 185

    Xxvil—Two Chapters About Charwomen.

    XXVIL—TWO CHAPTERS ABOUT CHARWOMEN .

    Chapter I. My Experiences Of The Class.

    _Chapter I . MY _EXPERIENCES OF THE CLASS .

    My mother cannot understand modern domestics and their ways of going on . She lias been a housekeeper these fifty years , and

    she never thought that things would come to such a pass as they have arrived at .

    Poor dear old mother ! accustomed in earlier and "brighter days fco a respectable number of well trained old-school servants who

    stayed a dozen years in a place , who wore linsey-woolsey petticoats

    and blue checked aprons , only on Sundays substituting white linen

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1860, page 185, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051860/page/41/