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`` You place wonderful store by that feather-stitching , but the new embroidery will do quite as well for all the fine ladies , and other women will get the money . '' `` Yes , yes , '' said Grannie , `` yes , it is the will o ' the Lord . Somehow , that seems to steady me up -- to bear it like . '' She went out of the room tottering a little , but came back quite cheerful when the children returned home for the midday meal . After dinner Alison went to see Mr. Shaw . She did not like this job at all , but she knew she had no chance of getting another place unless she could induce Shaw to give her a character . She planned how best to go to the shop without being observed by the rest of the shop people .