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  • When she had finished her tea she put these books back into a leather bag, which they filled to a rigid repletion, and, after a few laconic phrases with the tea-girl, she went out like going off the stage.

    Roman Holidays, and Others William Dean Howells 1878

  • She was a Swede; and here the student being exhausted as a topic, and my own nationality being ascertained, What steps, the tea-girl asked, should one take if one wished to go to New York in order to secure a place as cashier in a restaurant?

    Roman Holidays, and Others William Dean Howells 1878

  • Her powerful demeanor somehow implied severe studies; but the tea-girl -- a massive, confident, confiding Roman -- said, No, she was studying Italian, and all those books related to the language, for which she had a passion.

    Roman Holidays, and Others William Dean Howells 1878

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