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(1914) Author: Emma Goldman
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178 George Bernard Shaw
had a fried-fish shop down by the Mint, and kept her
self and four daughters out of it. Two of us were sis
ters : that was me and Liz ;
and we were both good look
ing and well made. I suppose our father was a well fed
man: mother pretended he was a gentleman; but I don t
know. The other two were only half sisters under
sized, ugly, starved, hard working, honest poor creatures:
Liz and I would have half murdered them if mother
hadn t half murdered us to keep our hands off them.
They were the respectable ones. Well, what did they
get by their respectability? I ll tell you. One of them
worked in a whitelead factory twelve hours a day for
nine shillings a week until she died of lead poisoning.
She only expected to get her hands a little paralyzed ;
but she died. The other was always held up to us as a
model because she married a Government laborer in the
Deptford victualling yard, and kept his room and the
three children neat and tidy on eighteen shillings a week
until he took to drink. That was worth being re
spectable for, wasn t it?
Fivie. Did you and your sister think so?
Mrs. Warren. Liz didn t, I can tell you; she had
more spirit. We both went to a Church School that
was part of the lady-like airs we gave ourselves to be
superior to the children that knew nothing and went no
where and we stayed there until Liz went out one
night and never came back. I knew the schoolmistress
thought I d soon follow her example; for the clergyman
was always warning me that Lizzie d end by jumping
off Waterloo Bridge. Poor fool: that was all that he
knew about it! But I was more afraid of the whitelead

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