"I wish something would happen " sighed Norah."If it were something nice," corrected Lettice. "Lots of things happen everyday, but they are mostly disagreeable. Getting up, for instance, in the cold, dark mornings-and practising-and housework, and getting ready for stupidold classes-I don't complain of having too little to do. I want to do less, andto be able to amuse myself more.""We want a change, that is the truth," said Hilary, bending forward on herseat, and sending the poker into the heart of the fire with a vigorous shove."Our lives jog-trot along in the same way year after year, and it growsmonotonous. I declare, when I think that this is the first day of anotherJanuary it makes me ill Fifty-two more Mondays to sit in the morning-roomand darn stockings. Fifty-two Saturdays to give out stores. Three hundredand sixty-five days to dust ornaments, interview the cook, and say, 'Well, letme see The cold mutton had better be used up for lunch'-Oh, dear me
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