Excerpt from The Stiff Lip: A Novel Ow! Mrs. Booker, you do go on, said Hilda, with short arms extended about the circular target, giggling at her superior's wit. Booker said nothing, but watched Hilda, who made vain efforts to hang it on a nail in the middle of the oak door. It was fascinating to watch the red-haired maid totter on her square toes and strive to hitch the cord on a nail too high for her, or take awkward little jumps, and, limp as a sack, fall back with one heel against the box of darts. This seemed part ...
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Excerpt from The Stiff Lip: A Novel Ow! Mrs. Booker, you do go on, said Hilda, with short arms extended about the circular target, giggling at her superior's wit. Booker said nothing, but watched Hilda, who made vain efforts to hang it on a nail in the middle of the oak door. It was fascinating to watch the red-haired maid totter on her square toes and strive to hitch the cord on a nail too high for her, or take awkward little jumps, and, limp as a sack, fall back with one heel against the box of darts. This seemed part of the contemptible proceedings of the day. Booker was led to comment: What'll they be up to next? You might think they were a lot of kids, the way they go on. Fact is, as soon as they get away from cards, they don't know what to do with themselves. That's the worst of the upper classes, Hilda; they don't know what to do with themselves. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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