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Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief by James Fenimore Cooper
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To interest on same for ninety days, at 7 per cent., -- 00.33
To portion of passage money, -- 00.04
To porterage, -- 00.00 1/4
To washing and making up, -- 00.25
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$19 66 1/4

CR.
By cash paid by Miss Thimble, -- $1.00
By cash paid for article, -- 100.00
By washerwoman's deduction, -- 00.05
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101.05
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By profit, -- $81.39 3/4

As Clara Caverly had yet to see Mrs. Thoughtful, and pay Eudosia's
subscription, the former now took her leave. I was thus left alone with
my new employer, for the first time, and had an opportunity of learning
something of her true character, without the interposition of third
persons; for, let a friend have what hold he or she may on your heart, it
has a few secrets that are strictly its own. If admiration of myself could
win my favor, I had every reason to be satisfied with the hands into
which fortune had now thrown me. There were many things to admire in
Eudosia--a defective education being the great evil with which she had
to contend. Owing to this education, if it really deserved such a name,
she had superficial accomplishments, superficially acquired--principles
that scarce extended beyond the retenue and morals of her sex--tastes
that had been imbibed from questionable models--and hopes that
proceeded from a false estimate of the very false position into which she
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