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“You’re new I don’t expect you to know any better, but Kate, I expect better froet his own damn sherry if it’s that important”

She laughed and swatted hio by hi le in that way it had started doing whenever he was around

I escaped to the study where I’d been dusting before I was called away to go to the store This was one of the easiest jobs in the house, and I was lucky to get it so soon after being hired The others were a little put out that I had been given such a light load, seeing as I was one of the newest hires and was still getting paid nicely

But I think Kate had done it because ofsoh I certainly wouldn’t have minded as desperate as I hen I turned up here

The mansion in the ser than the cottage I’d been born in, and the ceilings are so high I get a crick inup at them

Kate had taken one look atyou can do around here, and that’s dust and run errands here and there”

“But how ry, but I was I’d barely landed in the states with the clothes onquick, I would starve

It was very daunting to realize that intelligence in Sicily wasn’t ht little Bambina; here, I was little more than a pauper

I was barely eighteen, and one after in as lish and who looked like what I aar

Thingscities, but papa had warned me to stay away from those before he’d sent me away

Kate had looked ust I’d seen so often in the last few days, I saw compassion enter her eyes