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Charles Reade

Love me little, love me long

Paperback (University of Michigan Library Jan. 1, 1890)
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ...there, let me alone, child, and tell ma all about it directly. What put it into your head? Who taught you? Is this your first attempt 1 Have you paid for the silk, or am I to? Do tell me quick; don't keep me on thorns!" Lucy answered this fusillade in detail.. "You know, aunt, dress-makers bring us their failures, and we, by our hints, get them made into sue. cesses." "So we do." "So I said to myself, 'Now whj not bring a little intelligence to beai Here flashes on the cultivated mind tb sprightly couplet, O that I had my mistress at this bay. To kiss and clip me--till I run away." Shakespeare.--Venus and Adonis at the beginning, and make these things right at once?' Well, 1 bought several books, and studied them, and practised cutting out, in large sheets of bl own paper first; next I ventured a small flight,--I m.de Jane a gown." "What! your servant?" "Yes. I had a double motive; first attempts are seldom brilliant, and it was better to fail in merino, and on Jane, than on you, madam, and in silk. In the next place, Jane had been giving herself airs, and objecting to do some work of that kind for me, so I thought it a good opportunity to teach her that dignity does not consist in being disobliging. The poor girl is so ashamed now: she comes to me in her merino frock, and pesters me all day to let her do things for me. I am at my wit's end sometimes to invent unreal distresses, like the writers of fiction, you know; and, aunty, dear, you will not have to pay for the stuff: to tell you the real truth, I overheard Mr. Bazalgette say something about the length of your last dressmaker's bill, and, as I had been very economical at Font Abbey, I found I had eighteen pounds to spare, so I said...
Pages
356
Weight
14.9 oz.
Dimensions
5.12 x 0.81 in.

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