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...things that will be required of you. "To wait upon the table, take care of three children, help at the ironing, know how to flute [aside] (though I can't tell, for the life of me, what that is. I suppose its some musical thing for the children), dust the parlors, do the sewing. In the spare moments you will be ready to read aloud to my mother, and to wheel the perambulator. However [slyly], I don't think that will be very hard work, for the policeman on our block is very good-looking and obliging. Then you will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OH! | 12/20/1881 | See Source »

...evanescent dust that sifted thro...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SILVER CHALICE. | 12/20/1881 | See Source »

...seat, as he would crush it into dust...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SILVER CHALICE. | 12/20/1881 | See Source »

...blinded with star-dust, the river ran cold...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE TOLD SECRET. | 11/25/1881 | See Source »

Which she gather'd in a dust-pan with a brush, brush, brush...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE TUTOR AND THE MAIDEN. | 10/14/1881 | See Source »

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