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The Long Day: The Story of a New York Working Girl, as Told by Herself

Name: The Long Day: The Story of a New York Working Girl, as Told by Herself
Author: Richardson, Dorothy

Richardson, Dorothy

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THE LONG DAY

The Story of a New York Working Girl * * As Told by Herself

[Illustration: Logo]

New York
The Century Co.
1905

[Illustration]

Copyright, 1905, by The Century Co.

Published October, 1905

The Devinne Press

TO MY THREE "LADY-FRIENDS"

Happy, fortunate Minnie; Bessie, of gentle memory; and that other,
silent figure in the tragedy of Failure, the long-lost, erring Eunice,
with the hope that, if she still lives, her eye may chance to fall upon
this page, and reading the message of this book, she may heed.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER                                                 PAGE

   I IN WHICH I ARRIVE IN NEW YORK                         3

  II IN WHICH I START OUT IN QUEST OF WORK                16

 III I TRY "LIGHT" HOUSEKEEPING IN A FOURTEENTH-STREET
       LODGING-HOUSE                                      27

  IV WHEREIN FATE BRINGS ME GOOD FORTUNE IN ONE HAND
       AND DISASTER IN THE OTHER                          44

   V IN WHICH I AM "LEARNED" BY PHOEBE IN THE ART
       OF BOX-MAKING                                      58

  VI IN WHICH PHOEBE AND MRS. SMITH HOLD FORTH UPON
       MUSIC AND LITERATURE                               75

 VII IN WHICH I ACQUIRE A STORY-BOOK NAME AND MAKE
       THE ACQUAINTANCE OF MISS HENRIETTA MANNERS         92

VIII WHEREIN I WALK THROUGH DARK AND DEVIOUS WAYS
       WITH HENRIETTA MANNERS                            108

  IX INTRODUCING HENRIETTA'S "SPECIAL GENTLEMAN-FRIEND"  123

   X IN WHICH I FIND MYSELF A HOMELESS WANDERER
       IN THE NIGHT                                      142

  XI I BECOME AN "INMATE" OF A HOME FOR WORKING GIRLS    151

 XII IN WHICH I SPEND A HAPPY FOUR WEEKS MAKING
       ARTIFICIAL FLOWERS                                180

XIII THREE "LADY-FRIENDS," AND THE ADVENTURES THAT
       BEFALL THEM                                       197

 XIV IN WHICH A TRAGIC FATE OVERTAKES MY "LADY-FRIENDS"  215

  XV I BECOME A "SHAKER" IN A STEAM-LAUNDRY              229

 XVI IN WHICH IT IS PROVED TO ME THAT THE DARKEST HOUR
  COMES JUST BEFORE THE DAWN                             249

     EPILOGUE                                            266

THE LONG DAY

I

IN WHICH I ARRIVE IN NEW YORK

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