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It seemed from their
intonation that the speaker voiced merely a statement concerning
a recondite matter of truth, with which sentiment had nothing
whatever to do. But the effect on the employer was unfortunate.
It aroused at once his antagonism against the girl. His instinct
of sympathy with which he had greeted her at the outset was
repelled, and made of no avail. Worse, it was transformed into
an emotion hostile to the one who thus offended him by rejection
of the well-meant kindliness of his address
"Come, come!" he exclaimed, testily. "That's no tone to take
with me."
"Why? What sort of tone do you expect me to take?" was the
retort in the listless voice. Yet, now, in the dullness ran a
faint suggestion of something sinister.
"I expected a decent amount of humility from one in your
position," was the tart rejoinder of the magnate.
Life quickened swiftly in the drooping form of the girl. Her
muscles tensed. She stood suddenly erect, in the vigor of her
youth again. Her face lost in the same second its bleakness of
pallor.


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