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Joseph O’Neill Reads Muriel Spark

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Fau Lublinich's Garden

Fau Lublinich worked the hired girls 14 hours a day and they did the work cheerfully. Once when a girl dropped a tray with five mugs of soup, she mopped it up herself like any old peasant who had suffered worse than that in her time. The maids called her Fau Chef. She prepared special food when her husband's stomach is bad. Appended to the guesthouse was a butcher's shop and this was also a Lublinich possession. A grocer's shop had been placed beside it and on an adjacent plot of ground, all Lublinich property, a draper's shop was nearing completion. Two of her sons worked in the butcher's establishment

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