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She had often heard both discussed by her mother's customers, and when
Archie said, as he withdrew his hand empty, "Plague on it, what a bother
it is never to have any money; I wish we were not so poor. I wonder how
I can make a fortune; I've thought of forty ways," she asked saucily:
"Did you ever think of going to work?"
"To work! To work!" he repeated, slowly, as if not fully comprehending
her, "I don't think I quite know what you mean."
"I mean," she replied, "that if you have no money, and want some, why
don't you go to work and earn it like Giles, the tailor, or Jones, the
baker? It would not hurt you one bit."
"That is rich!" Archie exclaimed, sitting upright for the first time and
laughing immoderately. "The best thing I have heard. Ask Lady Jane, or
Uncle John, or even Anthony, how they would like to have a McPherson
turn baker, or tailor, or tinker."
"You know I did not mean you to be any of these," the girl answered, a
little indignantly; "but you might do something. You can go to London
and be a clerk in that big store, Marshall & Snellgrove's.


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