Round About A Brighton Coach Office Classic Reprint

Author : Maude Egerton Hine King
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230238197
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Round about a Brighton Coach Office written by Maude Egerton Hine King and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ... E boys always spoke of her as old Sukie, and indeed I thought she was very old, but have since realised that she, cannot have been more than thirty when I first remember her. She was a fine wholesome peasant woman, with bright dark eyes, ruddy colouring, a hurried abrupt manner of speech, and a heart of sterling goodness. She came of an odd family. One of her brothers, a miller, had so great a disdain of such poor weaklings as suffered themselves to be buried in consecrated ground, that he determined to escape this fate at any cost: accordingly he erected a large marble sarcophagus in the middle of his field, and there after death they laid the remains of this whimsical fellow. Another brother was a maker of leather breeches; but neither of these, as far as we could learn, although they were very well to do, gave much towards the support of the old father, a little rheumatic cobbler, living in great cheerfulness, and poverty, in Pool Valley. Thither every Saturday night went Sukie, and it was the only walk she ever took. Although she had left her country home as a mere girl, and had lived with my mother ever since, she had never lost her first exaggerated terror of crossing roads, and going among streets full of strange people; or if she had lost it, she would not own to it, feeling it perhaps as a falling off from her cherished traditions and a concession to our corrupt and silly town notions. She took with her on these occasions half a crown from her week's wages, carefully wrapped in paper, and a dish of roast apples or some good thing from my mother's homely bounty; and in this way she supplemented his little earnings to the best of her power. I never heard her complain of the unfilial maker of leather breeches, and miller, for she...