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"oriental" rugs were made in Dutch factories, as "French" and "Italian" silk scarveswhen the label was inspectedmight be products of Taiwan and Hong Kong. |
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The Greek shops displayed Greek pottery, possibly even made in Greece, and figured cloth, more probably milled in Japan or even the United States. Linda, having previously traveled with a group too sophisticated to visit such obvious "tourist traps," promised herself a trip back to town on her day off and some happy hours scrounging through the fascinating wares. She was beginning to think that the sneered-at tourists had a lot more fun than her worldly-wise friends. |
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She was delighted at the change in perspective that being a "poor working girl" had produced. The idle rich, who were supposed to be free to do as they liked, actually had most of their pleasure severely curtailed by stupid notions of what was beneath them or a fearoften far greater than that in people to whom money was a hard-won prizeof being cheated. But I can't be cheated, Linda thought, smiling. I'm not making an investment. If I buy something because I like it, I've got what I paid for in the pleasure the thing gives me and the pleasure of looking for it and buying it. |
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She found that her ruminations had carried her right out of the district she was thinking about. The cab, not in its first youthLinda grinned again at that miracle of understatementrattled and groaned over the narrow |
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