Missus Joe's Conciliatory Air

I was always treated as if i had insisted on being born, in opposition to the dicttes of reason, religion and morality. Missus joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to godliness, and some people do the same by their religion. My sister must have had some general idea that i was a young offender whom an acouchur policeman had taken up on my birthday and delivered over to her to be dealt with according to the outraged majesty of the law. So we had our slices served out as if we were two thousand troops on a forced march, instead of a

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