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“
Yes
,
”
he
said
,
as
she
moved
toward
the
door
,
“
you
try
the
department
stores
,
”
and
off
he
went
.
At
that
time
the
department
store
was
in
its
earliest
form
of
successful
operation
,
and
there
were
not
many
.
The
first
three
in
the
United
States
,
established
about
1884
,
were
in
Chicago
.
Carrie
was
familiar
with
the
names
of
several
through
the
advertisements
in
the
“
Daily
News
,
”
and
now
proceeded
to
seek
them
.
The
words
of
Mr
.
McManus
had
somehow
managed
to
restore
her
courage
,
which
had
fallen
low
,
and
she
dared
to
hope
that
this
new
line
would
offer
her
something
.
Some
time
she
spent
in
wandering
up
and
down
,
thinking
to
encounter
the
buildings
by
chance
,
so
readily
is
the
mind
,
bent
upon
prosecuting
a
hard
but
needful
errand
,
eased
by
that
self
-
deception
which
the
semblance
of
search
,
without
the
reality
,
gives
.
At
last
she
inquired
of
a
police
officer
,
and
was
directed
to
proceed
“
two
blocks
up
,
”
where
she
would
find
“
The
Fair
.
”
The
nature
of
these
vast
retail
combinations
,
should
they
ever
permanently
disappear
,
will
form
an
interesting
chapter
in
the
commercial
history
of
our
nation
.
Such
a
flowering
out
of
a
modest
trade
principle
the
world
had
never
witnessed
up
to
that
time
.
They
were
along
the
line
of
the
most
effective
retail
organisation
,
with
hundreds
of
stores
coordinated
into
one
and
laid
out
upon
the
most
imposing
and
economic
basis
.
They
were
handsome
,
bustling
,
successful
affairs
,
with
a
host
of
clerks
and
a
swarm
of
patrons
.
Carrie
passed
along
the
busy
aisles
,
much
affected
by
the
remarkable
displays
of
trinkets
,
dress
goods
,
stationery
,
and
jewelry
.
Each
separate
counter
was
a
show
place
of
dazzling
interest
and
attraction
.
She
could
not
help
feeling
the
claim
of
each
trinket
and
valuable
upon
her
personally
,
and
yet
she
did
not
stop
.
There
was
nothing
there
which
she
could
not
have
used
—
nothing
which
she
did
not
long
to
own
.
The
dainty
slippers
and
stockings
,
the
delicately
frilled
skirts
and
petticoats
,
the
laces
,
ribbons
,
hair
-
combs
,
purses
,
all
touched
her
with
individual
desire
,
and
she
felt
keenly
the
fact
that
not
any
of
these
things
were
in
the
range
of
her
purchase
.
She
was
a
work
-
seeker
,
an
outcast
without
employment
,
one
whom
the
average
employee
could
tell
at
a
glance
was
poor
and
in
need
of
a
situation
.
It
must
not
be
thought
that
any
one
could
have
mistaken
her
for
a
nervous
,
sensitive
,
high
-
strung
nature
,
cast
unduly
upon
a
cold
,
calculating
,
and
unpoetic
world
.
Such
certainly
she
was
not
.
But
women
are
peculiarly
sensitive
to
their
adornment
.
Not
only
did
Carrie
feel
the
drag
of
desire
for
all
which
was
new
and
pleasing
in
apparel
for
women
,
but
she
noticed
too
,
with
a
touch
at
the
heart
,
the
fine
ladies
who
elbowed
and
ignored
her
,
brushing
past
in
utter
disregard
of
her
presence
,
themselves
eagerly
enlisted
in
the
materials
which
the
store
contained
.
Carrie
was
not
familiar
with
the
appearance
of
her
more
fortunate
sisters
of
the
city
.
Neither
had
she
before
known
the
nature
and
appearance
of
the
shop
girls
with
whom
she
now
compared
poorly
.
They
were
pretty
in
the
main
,
some
even
handsome
,
with
an
air
of
independence
and
indifference
which
added
,
in
the
case
of
the
more
favoured
,
a
certain
piquancy
.
Their
clothes
were
neat
,
in
many
instances
fine
,
and
wherever
she
encountered
the
eye
of
one
it
was
only
to
recognise
in
it
a
keen
analysis
of
her
own
position
—
her
individual
shortcomings
of
dress
and
that
shadow
of
manner
which
she
thought
must
hang
about
her
and
make
clear
to
all
who
and
what
she
was
.
A
flame
of
envy
lighted
in
her
heart
.
She
realised
in
a
dim
way
how
much
the
city
held
—
wealth
,
fashion
,
ease
—
every
adornment
for
women
,
and
she
longed
for
dress
and
beauty
with
a
whole
heart
.
On
the
second
floor
were
the
managerial
offices
,
to
which
,
after
some
inquiry
,
she
was
now
directed
.
There
she
found
other
girls
ahead
of
her
,
applicants
like
herself
,
but
with
more
of
that
self
-
satisfied
and
independent
air
which
experience
of
the
city
lends
;
girls
who
scrutinised
her
in
a
painful
manner
.
After
a
wait
of
perhaps
three
-
quarters
of
an
hour
,
she
was
called
in
turn
.
“
Now
,
”
said
a
sharp
,
quick
-
mannered
Jew
,
who
was
sitting
at
a
roll
-
top
desk
near
the
window
,
“
have
you
ever
worked
in
any
other
store
?
”
“
No
,
sir
,
”
said
Carrie
.
