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She might employ a dozen girls , or even more than that , and pay them so much a dozen for selling the candy . She might then stop going out to sell herself , and thus gratify her mother . She could even go to school , and still attend to her business . When she returned home at noon , she proposed the plan to her mother . Mrs. Redburn was much pleased with it , though she suggested many difficulties in the way of its success . The girls might not be honest ; but if they were not , they could be discharged . Many of them were vicious ; they would steal or be saucy , so that people would not permit them to enter their stores and offices , and the business would thus be brought into disrepute .