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| 12 | 33 | The View more quotes about cost">cost of the laundry work, she conjectured, would be minimal, even negligible, to the laundry's patrons, particularly given its volume. |
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| 12 | 30 | But perhaps she lived alone and thus chose to have the work sent out. |
| 12 | 31 | Certainly the work came back well-aired, clean-smelling, bright with sunlight, pressed and folded. |
| 12 | 32 | Ellen, sweating, almost fainting with the heat, the hot, dripping garment in her hands, knelt back for a moment, and, in the hot, moist, close, steaming atmosphere of the low-ceilinged room, gasped for breath. |
| 12 | 33 | The cost of the laundry work, she conjectured, would be minimal, even negligible, to the laundry's patrons, particularly given its volume. |
| 12 | 34 | Certainly on such as she the laundry lost little money. |
| 12 | 35 | She, like the others, was fed on slave gruel and, on all fours, must drink from a pan on the floor. |
| 12 | 36 | "Do you dally in your work, little Ellen?" asked a voice. |