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Domesticity Invaded
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Early in the afternoon, two days later, Hilda came, with an air of reproach, into her mother’s empty bedroom. Mrs. Lessways had contracted a severe cold in the head, a malady1 to which she was subject and which she accepted with fatalistic submission2, even pleasurably giving herself up to it, as a martyr3 to the rack. Mrs. Lessways’ colds annoyed Hilda, who out of her wisdom could always point to the precise indiscretion which had caused them, and to whom the spectacle of a head wrapped day and night in flannel4 was offensively ridiculous. Moreover, Hilda in these crises was further and still more acutely exasperated5 by the pillage6 of her handkerchiefs. Although she possessed7 a supply of handkerchiefs far beyond her own needs, she really hated to lend to her mother in the hour of necessity. She did lend, and she lent without spoken protest, but with frigid8 bitterness. Her youthful passion for order and efficiency was aggrieved9 by her mother’s negligent10 and inadequate11 arrangements for coping with the inevitable12 plague. She now made a police-visit to the bedroom because she considered that her mother had been demanding handkerchiefs at a stage too early in the progress of the disease. Impossible that her mother should have come to the end of her own handkerchiefs! She knew with all the certitude of her

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audacity
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benevolence
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ingenuously
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casually
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tenants
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unwillingly
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humanitarian
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compassionate
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cynically
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delightful
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eldest
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nurture
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regiment
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asthma
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graceful
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prospect
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foul
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clout
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incapable
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interfere
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efficiently
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inevitably
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accusation
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