"
At this moment Ezekiel looked in the door and said, "Alice's room is
nice and warm now." Advancing, he took her hand and led her from the
room. Uncle Ike thanked Quincy for his kindness and followed them.
Quincy sat and thought. The picture that his mind drew placed the woman
who had just left his room in a large house, with servants at her
command. She was the head of the household, but no menial nor scullion.
She did not work, because he was able and willing to support her. She
did not vote, because she felt with him that at home was her sphere of
usefulness; and then Quincy thought that what would make this possible
was money, money that not he but others had earned, and he knew that
without this money the question could not be solved as his mind had
pictured it; and he reflected that all women could not have great houses
and servants and loving husbands to care for them, and he acknowledged
to himself that his solution was a personal, selfish one and not one
that would answer for the toiling million's of the working world.
CHAPTER XXII.
AFTER THE GREAT SNOWSTORM.
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