year after year, twisting sausage-links and racing with
death. It was piece-work, and she was apt to have a
family to keep alive; and stern and ruthless economic
laws had arranged it that she could only do this by work~
ing just as she did, with all her soul upon her work, and
with never an instant for a glance at the well-dressed
ladies and gentlemen who came to stare at her, as at some
wild beast in a menagerie.

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p158 _ -chap- _ toc-1 _ p159w _ toc-2 _ +chap+ _ p160

v?