The Incomplete Amorist

By Nesbit, Edith

Book Id: WPLBN0000624577
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	The Incomplete Amorist
Author:	Nesbit, Edith
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Excerpt: Chapter 1. THE INEVITABLE. ?NO. The chemises aren't cut out. I haven't had time. There are enough shirts to go on with, aren't there, Mrs. James?? said Betty. ?We can make do for this afternoon, Miss, but the men they're getting blowed out with shirts. It?s the children?s shifts as we can?t make shift without much longer.? Mrs. James, habitually doleful, punctuated her speech with sniffs. ?That?s a joke, Mrs. James,? said Betty. ?How clever you are!? ?I try to be what?s fitting,? said Mrs. James, complacently. ?Talk of fitting,? said Betty, ?If you like I?ll fit on that black bodice for you, Mrs. Symes. If the other ladies don?t mind waiting for the reading a little bit.? ?I?d as lief talk as read, myself,? said a red?faced sandy?haired woman; ?books ain't what they was in my young days.? ?If it?s the same to you, Miss,? said Mrs. Symes in a thick rich voice, ?I?ll not be tried on afore a room full. If we are poor we can all be clean?s what I say, and I keeps my unders as I keeps my outside. But not before persons as has real imitation lace on their petticoat bodies.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: The Incomplete Amorist, 1