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‘Bless you!’ said Miss Knag, bestowing a kiss upon Kate at the
conclusion of the second day’s work, ‘how very awkward you have
been all day.’

‘I fear your kind and open communication, which has rendered
me more painfully conscious of my own defects, has not improved
me,’ sighed Kate.

‘No, no, I dare say not,’ rejoined Miss Knag, in a most
uncommon flow of good humour. ‘But how much better that you
should know it at first, and so be able to go on, straight and
comfortable! Which way are you walking, my love?’

‘Towards the city,’ replied Kate.
‘The city!’ cried Miss Knag, regarding herself with great favour
in the glass as she tied her bonnet. ‘Goodness gracious me! now do
you really live in the city?’

‘Is it so very unusual for anybody to live there?’ asked Kate, half
smiling.

‘I couldn’t have believed it possible that any young woman
could have lived there, under any circumstances whatever, for
three days together,’ replied Miss Knag.

‘Reduced--I should say poor people,’ answered Kate,
correcting herself hastily, for she was afraid of appearing proud,
‘must live where they can.’

‘Ah! very true, so they must; very proper indeed!’ rejoined Miss
Knag with that sort of half-sigh, which, accompanied by two or
three slight nods of the head, is pity’s small change in general
society; ‘and that’s what I very often tell my brother, when our
servants go away ill, one after another, and he thinks the back-
kitchen’s rather too damp for ’em to sleep in. These sort of people,
I tell him, are glad to sleep anywhere! Heaven suits the back to the


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