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With your recommendations it ought to be easy enough for you to do so . '' `` I am afraid not , '' said Janetta , with a little sigh . `` Nonsense ! You could get some if you tried -- if you had any energy , any spirit : I suppose you would like to sit with your hands before you , doing nothing , while I slaved my fingers to the bone for you , '' said Mrs. Colwyn , who never got up till noon , or did anything but gossip and read novels when she was up ; `` but I would be ashamed to do that if I were a well-educated girl , whose father spent I do n't know how much on her voice , and expected her to make a living for herself by the time she was one-and-twenty ! I must say , Janetta , that I think it very wrong of you to be so slack in trying to earn a little money , when Nora and Georgie and Joey are all out in the world doing for themselves , and you sitting here at home doing nothing at all . '' `` I am sorry , mamma , '' said Janetta , meekly . `` I will try to get something to do at once . ''