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ho as if

eager to welcoh it all she carried a pri businesslike notes on her little pad; but beneath her very

des should be

and not be for her The world was one huge sour grape; and yet she h it tasted sweet There were blurs in her eyes as she

stumbled up the back stairs, whither her as pointed, that she -roo off their wraps She sed a luet or ignore the careless looks

thrown at her by these ladies, as thecloaks loves on bare arms

less lovely than her own Many of the woht, and resented the fact, that they were surprised to see so

much beauty She could not be i all this as a part of the day's work,

and whispering names to one another, which Lena, too, must catch and

treasure for her reportorial harvest She owns, that later she may serve them

up in the technical slapdash of the social column