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The Story. Bertha was a big, blonde, Baltic lummox; one of those inarticulate girls; a strong, hardworking, silent, lonely servant—apparently impassive—regarded by mistress after mistress as just a good plain cook—yet possessed of a certain dumb, unconscious power of understanding. She passed through the lives of many other people, and, somehow, altered them all.
Born in a dark sailors' boarding house in Front Street, her first place was with the Farleys, rich, etiolated, precise. Rollo Farley, the pallidly esthetic son...
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