The Price of Love: Original Text

By: Bennett, Arnold

In the evening dimness of old Mrs. Maldon's sitting-room stood the youthful virgin, Rachel Louisa Fleckring. The prominent fact about her appearance was that shewore an apron. Not one of those white, waist-tied aprons, with or without bibs, worn proudly, uncompromisingly, by a previous generation of unaspiringhousewives and housegirls! But an immense blue pinafore-apron, covering thewhole front of the figure except the head, hands, and toes. Its virtues were that itfully protected the most fragile frock against all the perils of the kitchen; and that itcould be slipped on or off in one second, without any manipulation of tapes, pins, or buttons and buttonholes-for it had no fastenings of any sort and merely yawnedbehind. In one second the drudge could be transformed into the elegant infanta ofboudoirs, and vice versa. To suit the coquetry of the age the pinafore was enrichedwith certain flouncings, which, however, only intensified its unshapen ugline

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0914PW7P4
• ISBN13: 9798729138876
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"