Thursday, October 25, 2007

Van Gogh Sunflower

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Then she looked doubtful.
"I wonder," she said, “if this post is really what you're looking for? I don't want a housekeeper, you know, to supervise things. I want someone to do the work."
Lucy said that that was what most people needed.
Emma Crackenthorpe said apologetically:
"So many people, you know, seem to think that just a little light dusting will answer the case - but I can do all the light dusting myself."
"I quite understand," said
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said Lucy. "You want cooking and washing-up, and housework and stoking the boiler. That's all right. That's what I do. I'm not at all afraid of work."
"It's a big house, I'm afraid, and inconvenient. Of course we only live in a portion of it – my father and myself, that is. He is rather an invalid. We live quite quietly, and there is an Aga stove. I have several brothers, but they are not here very often. Two women come in, a Mrs. Kidder in the morning, and Mrs. Hart three days a week to do brasses and things like that. You have your own car?"
"Yes. It can stand out in the open if there's nowhere to put it. It's used to it."
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