title: Overcoming Mediocrity: A Unique Collection of Stories From Dynamic Women Who Have Created Their Own Lives of Significance! (Volume 1)
author:  Christie Ruffino 
description: <span>ChristieRuffino is the President and Founder of the Dynamic Professional Women'sNetwork, Inc., the Dynamic Women's Conference, DPWN Publishing and the DPWNAngel Foundation. Her networking experience and leadership training hasprovided her the expertise to create a thriving platform for women to buildtheir businesses in a relationship based, industry exclusive, professionalnetworking organization designed exclusively for them to generate strongreferrals for each other. The great thing about all of this, and what Christiegets to see on a daily basis, is that once women stop trying to build theirbusinesses alone and start collaborating with other smart and dedicated women,their lives will become transformed in so many areas besides in just business. Christieis now dedicated to helping others cash in on their unique strengths by definingand sharing their Personal Power Stories and building and leveraging their own networkingtribe.</span>
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  # Master Eustace
  
  
  ### By Henry James
  
  
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  Etext by Ian Hillman
  
  
  Having handed me my cup of tea, she proceeded to make her own; an
  
  
  operation she performed with a delicate old-maidish precision I
  
  
  delighted to observe.
  
  
  The story is not my own but that of persons with whom for a time I
  
  
  was intimately connected. I have led a quiet life. This is my only
  
  
  romance and its the romance of others. When I was a young woman of
  
  
  twenty-two my poor mother died, after a long, weary illness, and I
  
  
  found myself obliged to seek a new home. Making a home requires time
  
  
  and money. I had neither to spare, so I advertised for a situation,
  
  
  rating my accomplishments modestly, and asking rather for kind
  
  
  treatment than high wages. Mrs. Garnyer immediately answered my
  
  
  advertisement. She offer