Excerpt from The School for Widows, Vol. 2 of 3: A Novel

I behaved with all the politenefs I was mifirefs of to them, in h0pe to excite theirs m return; but it had no effect: my politenefis to them was their due, and a thing of courfe but theirs to me was un necefl'ary. I was a reduced perfon, and r'eceived wages for my attendance on them; which made me a dependent, not much above a fervant.gem for wmbws.

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