The Wicker Work Woman; a Chronicle of Our Own Times
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" Heavens ! how tall you are ! " she exclaimed. " You have such long arms ! . . ." " Don't worry me about them, mamma ! As it is, I never know what to do with them." She sat down and clasped her red hands across 2o8 THE WICKER-WORK WOMAN her knees. She replied with a graceful air of bore- dom to the questions which her mother asked about her health, and listened wearily to her instructions about healthy habits and to her advice in the matter of cod-liver oil. Then she asked : " And how is papa ...? " Madame Worms-Clavelin was almost astonished whenever anyone asked her about her husband, not because she was herself indifferent to him, but because she felt it was impossible to say anything new about this firm, unchangeable, stolid man, who was never ill and who never said or did anything original. " Your father ? What could happen to him ? We have a very good position and no wish to change it." All the same, she thought it would soon be advisable to look out for a suitable sinecure, either in the treasury, or, perhaps rather, in the Council of State.
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