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"All yet seems well, and if it ends so meet, / The bitter past more welcome is the sweet. "
It is a sultry August evening; Mary Jane, the upper housemaid, much refreshed by her comfortable tea, is sitting at an open window, gossiping with the head laundry-maid, and unpicking a brown merino dress, which she is praising to the skies.