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id: 32468
author: Sivia, H.
title: The Last of Mrs. DeBrugh
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sentence: 156
flesch: 94
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summary:
  Mrs. DeBrugh lay in the bed as in sleep, but Letty knew, as she had known about Mr. DeBrugh, that it was more than sleep. It came quite abruptly from Mrs. DeBrugh in the study, and it frightened Letty out of her wits momentarily.


id: 44319
author: Munsell, Ida Hamilton
title: Miss Heck's Thanksgiving Party; or, Topsy Up To Date
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words: 2715
sentence: 110
flesch: 73
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summary:
  Any person with but half an eye could recognize at a glance the extraordinary character of Miss Myra Heck! But, unfortunately, Miss Myra was born of black parents away down in the sunny southland, and the dark hue of skin and wisps of woolly curls which are characteristic of the negro race have descended upon their offspring.


id: 27103
author: Gréville, Henry
title: The Little Russian Servant
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words: 5465
sentence: 340
flesch: 83
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summary:
  On the eve of St. John, when young girls plait crowns of flowers, which they throw into the river to see if they are to be married within the year, Mavra went, like the others, to consult fate after this graceful fashion. Mavra was left alone in the workroom, a large, well-lighted chamber, furnished simply with tables and chairs for the use of the innumerable women and girls invariably attached to the service of those noble ladies who knew so well how to maintain their rank in that blessed time of serfdom.


id: 35053
author: Campbell, Adelaide M. G.
title: Sarah's First Start in Life
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words: 11200
sentence: 389
flesch: 76
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summary:
  At last Sarah and Edith took up their candles to go to bed, leaving the others still talking. In a few minutes in came Mrs. Ellis, the cook, and told Sarah to hurry up as there were some pots to wash, and poor Sarah had to gulp down her cup of tea and eat her bread and butter very fast.


id: 46760
author: Swift, Jonathan
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words: 10137
sentence: 532
flesch: 86
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title:
  Hints to Servants Being a Poetical and Modernised Version of Dean Swift's Celebrated "Directions to Servants"

summary:
  When your own Master gets the like, A brace of barbel, bream, or pike, Stir up his generosity To tip your friend a double fee; Go snacks then with your liveried brother, 'Good servants always help each other! Keen as a hawk each fault to seize, And _Swift_ to blame, as slow to please; Swell'd up with pride to height of tumour, Though all admired his dogged humour.


id: 14117
author: Barker, C. Hélène
title: Wanted, a Young Woman to Do Housework: Business principles applied to housework
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words: 15798
sentence: 532
flesch: 60
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summary:
  Large stores and factories, requiring the coöperation of many employees, have done more to open new avenues of work for women than could have been dreamed of in former times, when it was the custom for each family to produce at home as much as possible, if not all, that was necessary for its own consumption. Wages, apparently, have little to do with their decision, nor other considerations which must add very much to their material welfare, such as good food in abundance, and clean, well ventilated sleeping accommodations, for these two important items are generally included at present in the salaries of household employees.


id: 8188
author: Alcott, Louisa May
title: The Mysterious Key and What It Opened
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words: 20060
sentence: 1030
flesch: 85
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summary:
  They talked of many things in a pleasant, confidential manner, though when Lillian recalled that hour, she was surprised to find how little Paul had really told them of his past life or future plans. Tell Lillian this, and do not let her hate me.


id: 43042
author: Herrick, Christine Terhune
title: The Expert Maid-Servant
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words: 23252
sentence: 963
flesch: 73
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summary:
  Each mistress probably has her own way of learning the maid's capabilities and of explaining the work she wishes done. After the mistress and maid have reached some kind of an adjustment that makes them feel the relation of employer and employed would be desirable to both, it is time for the housekeeper to make special inquiry about the maid's references.


id: 2618
author: Bangs, John Kendrick
title: A House-Boat on the Styx
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words: 28300
sentence: 1651
flesch: 83
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summary:
  Sir Walter Raleigh, Cassius, Demosthenes, Blackstone, Doctor Johnson, and Confucius, replied the shade. It was a part of their plan that upon this occasion Shakespeare should play pool with Doctor Johnson and the Emperor Nero, and hence it was that the coin bade him repair to the library and chat with Lord Bacon.


id: 50097
author: Carton, R. C. (Richard Claude)
title: Lady Huntworth's Experiment: An original comedy in three acts
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words: 27462
sentence: 3946
flesch: 99
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summary:
  I hope you changed your things, (DORVASTON _and_ LUCY _laugh_) Captain Dorvaston. (DORVASTON _and_ LUCY _laugh_) PIL.


id: 959
author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)
title: The Lost Princess of Oz
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words: 48077
sentence: 2488
flesch: 86
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summary:
  Said he to Cayke, I am now convinced that no Yip has taken your dishpan, and since it is gone from the Yip Country, I suspect that some stranger came from the world down below us in the darkness of night when all of us were asleep and took away your treasure. After all, it was little Dorothy who came to their rescue, and her ability to save them was almost as much a surprise to the girl as it was to her friends.


id: 42768
author: Webster, Jean
title: Much Ado About Peter
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words: 48525
sentence: 3094
flesch: 86
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summary:
  'Tell Peter,' she says, 'that he's to drive in with the buckboard and meet the eight-fifteen train from the city. Billy was a huge, loose-jointed fellow who looked as if he could have picked up little Peter and slung him over his shoulder like a sack of flour.


id: 9611
author: Fielding, Henry
title: Joseph Andrews, Vol. 1
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words: 65097
sentence: 2050
flesch: 64
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summary:
  After which Barnabas and he departed, and left Mr Joseph and Mr Adams together. Mr Adams, said she, what is Mr Joseph to me?


id: 57319
author: Crowninshield, Schuyler, Mrs.
title: San Isidro
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words: 68116
sentence: 5173
flesch: 93
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summary:
  Does the lad want me over there--the Señor Silencio? I have heard nothing from him, Señor Don Beltran. yes, Señor Don Beltran!


id: 9609
author: Fielding, Henry
title: Joseph Andrews, Vol. 2
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words: 72844
sentence: 2294
flesch: 66
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summary:
  A very curious adventure, in which Mr Adams gave a much greater instance of the honest simplicity of his heart, than of his experience in the ways of this world. A discourse which happened between Mr Adams, Mrs Adams, Joseph, and Fanny, with some behaviour of Mr Adams which will be called by some few readers very low, absurd, and unnatural.


id: 42754
author: Rath, E. J.
title: Good References
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words: 74411
sentence: 6814
flesch: 91
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summary:
  No!_ Aunt Caroline Marshall, Bill Marshall, the butler, and a file of the Marshall servants! CHAPTER XIV REFERENCES To the horror of Bill Marshall, the undisguised wonder of Pete Stearns and unexpected joy of Mary Wayne, Aunt Caroline announced herself as much pleased with the party.


id: 17226
author: Burnett, Frances Hodgson
title: Emily Fox-Seton Being "The Making of a Marchioness" and "The Methods of Lady Walderhurst"
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words: 83684
sentence: 5354
flesch: 85
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summary:
  There was a singular gravity in the words poor Lady Walderhurst spoke in reply. Emily Walderhurst patted her shoulder as she kindly enfolded her in warm arms.


id: 45870
author: Phillipps-Wolley, Clive
title: Gold, Gold, in Cariboo! A Story of Adventure in British Columbia
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words: 85356
sentence: 3817
flesch: 85
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summary:
  As he stood in the little room looking quizzically at his friend's work, Ned Corbett, in his old blue shirt and overalls, with the axe lying across one bare brown forearm, might have served an artist as a model for Labour; but the artist into whose studio he had come had no need for such models. At about the same time one of the finest houses in New York would have been disturbed to its very foundations if it were suspected that Mr. Steve Chance wanted for any of the luxuries of the nineteenth century, and yet here were Steve Chance and Ned Corbett, their last dollar invested in a doubtful venture, their razors abandoned, their toilet necessaries reduced to one cake of soap and a towel between two (Cruickshank condemned the habit of washing altogether upon the road), and their whole stock of household goods reduced to two light packs, to be carried mile after mile upon their own strong shoulders.


id: 47003
author: Barnes-Grundy, Mabel
title: Dimbie and I—and Amelia
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words: 80097
sentence: 6326
flesch: 91
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summary:
  But, ah, I forgot--Mr. Dimbie will be there to take you. This is how he began Marguerite, I don't want to frighten you Your will will always be mine, Marguerite Dimbie and I--and Amelia CHAPTER I WHICH INTRODUCES DIMBIE Outside, the world is bathed in sunshine, beautiful, warm, life-giving spring sunshine.


id: 43983
author: Dale, Alan
title: Wanted: A Cook Domestic Dialogues
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words: 82686
sentence: 6208
flesch: 85
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summary:
  I fancy little Letitia looks rather pale, pursued my wife. The run of the house for a night will do her good, I am sure-- The run of the house had not been denied little Letitia, though I was determined to keep silent and not argue the matter.


id: 37463
author: Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson
title: The Builders
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words: 109478
sentence: 5591
flesch: 82
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summary:
  I liked it very much, and so did Mrs. Blackburn, but Miss Blackburn really showed some temper because he would not change a line when she asked him to. Well, I thought that Miss Blackburn was right when she said the line was all out of character with the speaker; but Mrs. Blackburn did not agree with us, and when Mr. Wythe appealed to her, she said it was just perfect as it was, and that he must not dream of changing it.


id: 13461
author: Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock
title: Mistress and Maid: A Household Story
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words: 112466
sentence: 5100
flesch: 78
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summary:
  Now, Miss Hilary Leaf had all this while gone on toasting. Miss Hilary rose from her knees, crossed the kitchen, took from the girl's unresisting hands the old black bonnet and shawl, and hung them up carefully on a nail behind the great eight-day clock.


id: 21320
author: Fenn, George Manville
title: Mass' George: A Boy's Adventures in the Old Savannah
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words: 140676
sentence: 6931
flesch: 86
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summary:
  Seen Pomp anywhere? Eh? Mass' George tink Pomp got wunful eye? Yes; you can see twice as well in the dark as I can.


id: 23266
author: Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)
title: Janet's Love and Service
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words: 202331
sentence: 11699
flesch: 88
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summary:
  Tell Graeme, when that happens, I shall expect her to come and keep my house.' No' ae step, Miss Graeme.


