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She never saw the laboring multitudes behind it , past and present multitudes , dead fingers , living fingers , big men 's fingers , little children 's fingers , pulling the strings , delivering the prizes , laying aside the plugged nickel in the treasury of a remote revenge . Perhaps the reason why she did n't catch on to the fact that , instead of being the world 's creditor , she was really inhabiting an almshouse was that she was so busy . You see , she not only did things all the time but she had to find and invent them to do . Her life , even before she was married , was much more difficult than her brother 's , who simply got up in the morning and took the same old 7:42 to the same old office . When he wanted clothes he went to the nearest decent tailor . No such cinch for Marie . Her tailor lived in Sutherton , on the directly opposite side of the city from the suburb in which Marie lived .