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Sister Carrie: a Novel by Theodore Dreiser
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"Not as anything in particular," she faltered.

"Have you ever had any experience in the wholesale dry goods
business?" he questioned.

"No, sir," she replied.

"Are you a stenographer or typewriter?"

"No, sir."
"Well, we haven't anything here," he said. "We employ only
experienced help."

She began to step backward toward the door, when something about
her plaintive face attracted him.

"Have you ever worked at anything before?" he inquired.

"No, sir," she said.

"Well, now, it's hardly possible that you would get anything to
do in a wholesale house of this kind. Have you tried the
department stores?"

She acknowledged that she had not.

"Well, if I were you," he said, looking at her rather genially,
"I would try the department stores. They often need young women
as clerks."

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