Sarah's School Friend

ISBN-13: 9781421843049 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 280 str.

May Baldwin

Opis

Its a dreadful thing to have a father you dont respect, said Sarah Clay, as she walked into the gilded and beautifully painted drawing-room of the aforesaid fathers mansion in Yorkshire. Her mother gave a little, sharp scream, and let fall the book she was holding in her hand. Sarah came forward swiftly, picked it up, and turned it over to look at the title, at sight of which she said, with a little laugh, What a humbug you are, mother! You know youve never read a single word of this book. Mrs Clays face flushed crimson. Ow dare you talk similar to that, Sarah? Only she pronounced it fairly with a true cockney accent, and left out all her hs. I dont know wat women are comin to nowadays, wat wi one thing an another, wen it comes to a chit o sixteen talkin like that about er mother bein an umbug, let alone sayin she doesnt respect er father; an wat ed say if e eard er I couldnt say, Im sure, she said, flustered.