Cup, Curl, Capture and a cup - for my own Friday challege.
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Assuredly, no job that leaves a man coming home at cock-crow each morning could ever be quite civilised. Still, the ladies he worked for were good mistresses, and the work suited Caleb far better than any other he had held before. His ladies allowed him to use his size and strength without assuming that with it came bloodlust or anger. Bessie called him her gentle giant and from anyone else it would be patronising, but from the queen of the house it became something to make him colour with quiet happiness.
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Assuredly, no job that leaves a man coming home at cock-crow each morning could ever be quite civilised. Still, the ladies he worked for were good mistresses, and the work suited Caleb far better than any other he had held before. His ladies allowed him to use his size and strength without assuming that with it came bloodlust or anger. Bessie called him her gentle giant and from anyone else it would be patronising, but from the queen of the house it became something to make him colour with quiet happiness.
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