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The Price of Love
Arnold Bennett
The Price of Love
Arnold Bennett
In the evening dimness of old Mrs. Maldon's sitting-room stood the youthful virgin, Rachel Louisa Fleckring. The prominent fact about her appearance was that she wore an apron. Not one of those white, waist-tied aprons, with or without bibs, worn proudly, uncompromisingly, by a previous generation of unaspiring housewives and housegirls! But an immense blue pinafore-apron, covering the whole front of the figure except the head, hands, and toes. Its virtues were that it fully protected the most fragile frock against all the perils of the kitchen; and that it could be slipped on or off in one second, without any manipulation of tapes, pins, or buttons and buttonholes-for it had no fastenings of any sort and merely yawned behind. In one second the drudge could be transformed into the elegant infanta of boudoirs, and vice versa. To suit the coquetry of the age the pinafore was enriched with certain flouncings, which, however, only intensified its unshapen ugliness.
Médias | Livres Paperback Book (Livre avec couverture souple et dos collé) |
Validé | 28 juin 2018 |
ISBN13 | 9781979840026 |
Éditeurs | Createspace Independent Publishing Platf |
Pages | 324 |
Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 17 mm · 435 g |
Langue et grammaire | English |
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