Author : Mary E. Wilkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781330551974
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (519 download)
Book Synopsis A Humble Romance, and Other Stories (Classic Reprint) by : Mary E. Wilkins
Download or read book A Humble Romance, and Other Stories (Classic Reprint) written by Mary E. Wilkins and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Humble Romance, and Other Stories She was stooping over the great kitchen sink, washing the breakfast dishes. Under fostering circumstances, her slenderness of build might have resulted in delicacy or daintiness; now the harmony between strength and task had been repeatedly broken, and the result was ugliness. Her finger joints and wrist bones were knotty and out of proportion, her elbows, which her rolled-up sleeves dis played, were pointed and knobby, her shoulders bent, her feet spread beyond their natural bounds - from head to foot she was a little discordant note. She had a pale, peaked face, her scanty fair hair was strained tightly back, and twisted into a tiny knot, and her expression was at once passive and eager. There came a ringing knock at the kitchen door, and a face of another description, large, strong-featured, and assured, peered out of the pantry, which was over against the sink. "Who is it, Sally?" "I don' know, Mis' King." "Well, go to the door, can't you, an' not stan' thar gapin'. I can't; my hands are in the butter." Sally shook the dish-water off her red, sodden fingers, and shuffled to the door. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.