Romance

Miss Parker Takes Charge

By Jane Eliot - Posted on August 25th, 2009
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Mrs. Briggs had come down from the village that morning to help us out.  We didn’t like her much. She was a fat, untidy woman who gave the impression of being slightly unsteady, and she was always prying.

“What’s your Pa do for a living?” she asked my sister, Tansy, one day while she slopped around with her pail and her mop.

The Real Me

By Jane Eliot - Posted on August 7th, 2009
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I kept telling myself I was going to enjoy this week at the Ocean View Hotel at Seahampton, although I know it was not the kind of holiday I would have chosen. I shouldn’t have been here at all if it hadn’t been for Fiona.

 

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