Subject for November, 2016
Chapter 10 – Beginning Again
Subject: Work: A Story of Experience
MRS. STERLING. IT was an April day when Christie went to her new home. Warm rains had melted the last trace of snow, and every bank was full of pricking grass-blades, brave li...
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Chapter 9 – Mrs. Wilkins’s Minister
Subject: Work: A Story of Experience
MR. POWER. NEXT day Christie braved the lion in his den, otherwise the flinty Flint, in her second-class boarding-house, and found that alarm and remorse had produced a soften...
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Chapter 8 – A Cure For Despair
Subject: Work: A Story of Experience
LISHA WILKINS. WHEN Christie opened the eyes that had closed so wearily, afternoon sunshine streamed across the room, and seemed the herald of happier days. Refreshed by sleep...
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Chapter 7 – Through The Mist
Subject: Work: A Story of Experience
THE year that followed was the saddest Christie had ever known, for she suffered a sort of poverty which is more difficult to bear than actual want, since money cannot lighten...
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Chapter 6 – Seamstress
Subject: Work: A Story of Experience
FOR some weeks Christie rested and refreshed herself by making her room gay and comfortable with the gifts lavished on her by the Carrols, and by sharing with others the money...
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Chapter 5 – Companion
Subject: Work: A Story of Experience
BEFORE she had time to find a new situation, Christie received a note from Miss Tudor, saying that hearing she had left Mrs. Saltonstall she wanted to offer her the place of c...
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Chapter 4 – Governess
Subject: Work: A Story of Experience
MR. PHILIP FLETCHER. DURING the next few weeks Christie learned the worth of many things which she had valued very lightly until then. Health became a boon too precious to be ...
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Chapter 3 – Actress
Subject: Work: A Story of Experience
FEELING that she had all the world before her where to choose, and that her next step ought to take her up at least one round higher on the ladder she was climbing, Christie d...
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Chapter 2 – Servant
Subject: Work: A Story of Experience
A FORTNIGHT later, and Christie was off. Mrs. Flint had briefly answered that she had a room, and that work was always to be found in the city. So the girl packed her one trun...
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Chapter 1 – Christie
Subject: Work: A Story of Experience
CHRISTIE. "AUNT BETSEY, there’s going to be a new Declaration of Independence." "Bless and save us, what do you mean, child?" And the startled old la...
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