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Usage examples of eunice.

It was unfortunate for Eunice Parchman, and for them, that the people who employed her and in whose home she lived for nine months were peculiarly literate.

Had they been a family of philistines, they might be alive today and Eunice free in her mysterious dark freedom of sensation and instinct and blank absence of the printed word.

When Eunice Parchman was engaged as their housekeeper George was fifty-seven and Jacqueline forty-two.

Before Eunice came, and left desolation behind her, Lowfield Hall was not like this.

But in those few seconds she spent with Eunice Parchman she felt a violent antipathy to her.

As soon as Eunice Parchman had sat down she undid the top button of her raincoat to disclose the polo neck of a lighter blue-ribbed jumper.

And instead of examining the candidate, instead of attempting to find out if this woman were suitable to work in her house, if she would suit the Coverdales, she began persuading Eunice Parchman that they would suit her.

At this point Jacqueline should have asked why Eunice was leaving her present situation, or at least something about her present situation.

If Jacqueline had had a better knowledge of Greater London, she would have realized that Eunice Parchman had already told her a lie, or at least acquiesced in a misapprehension.

Before she made the phone call Jacqueline, who had an active imagination, had formed a picture in her mind of the kind of household in which Eunice Parchman worked and the kind of woman who employed her.

The Coverdales had speculated about Eunice Parchman as to her work potential and her attitude, respectful or otherwise, towards themselves.

At that stage Eunice was little more than a machine to them, and the satisfactory working of that machine depended on its being suitably oiled and its having no objection to stairs.

Parchman, at fifty, was confined to a wheelchair, and Eunice gave up her job to look after her and run the house.

Parchman died when Eunice was thirty-seven, and her widower immediately took over as resident invalid.

Like all her close acquaintances, Annie suspected Eunice was illiterate or semi-literate, but no one could ever be quite sure.