By L. A. Meyer
ISBN-10: 0547415877
ISBN-13: 9780547415871
Everything she does is inaccurate. Her embroidery is deplorable, her French is atrocious, and her desk manners--disgusting! Then there is the small topic of her blue anchor tattoo. . . .
Despite her top efforts, Jacky can not seem to remain out of difficulty lengthy adequate to commit herself to being ladylike. yet what enjoyable might that be, anyway?
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Now drop your eyelids down halfway. That's better. " She lifts her rod and taps my shoulders with it. "Not so rigidly straight. Remember the book on your head. " She steps back to look at me. "Eventually, Miss Faber, it is further to be hoped that you will learn to control your emotions so that they do not display quite so visibly on your face as they do right now. My girls have a look about them and appearing to be about to burst into tears is not part of that look. " There is a broad sweep of stairs at the end of the hallway and up it we do go, Mistress first and me behind watching the swaying hem of her skirt.
Supper is, as Amy said, a much smaller affair than dinner, but it is still quite good. We have a pie made from some sort of bird with vegetables and gravy all in it. I'm getting better with the tools and don't have to watch Amy so closely this time. These biscuits are sinfully good. " says I to break the silence. "Do you have a family? " I know she still does not quite know what to make of me. "Yes," she replies, "we have a farm in Quincy. I have a brother and his name is Randall. " "Ah," I says, "a poor farm girl with a poor scholar for a brother.
London for sure didn't have nothin' like that," I says. "It's called the Common," says Tilly, when he sees my interest. I think he's glad that I've stopped crying, and he goes on in his teaching voice. "It was set aside by the forefathers because Boston is essentially an island and it would be hard to get the animals off and on for purposes of grazing. I think it's wondrous restful to the eyes after the hubbub of the town. " I nod. I know he's talkin' just to keep my spirits up, and I appreciates it.
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