Room With a Clue (Pennyfoot Hotel Mystery)
“By the time she was fifteen she equaled her youngest brother’s stature of five feet six. At eighteen she’d come close to her eldest brother at five feet nine.
There weren’t too many women who looked her straight in the eye, but Gertie Brown was one of them. When it came to width, however, Gertie easily exceeded her. Built like the conventional farmer’s daughter, the housemaid actually hailed from London. In a reversal of tradition, at twelve years old she’d sought a position in a seaside town t...o escape what she called “the ’orrible muck and racket.”
James Sinclair had hired her for her strength and her forthright manner, the latter of which he’d regretted on more than one occasion.
Cecily, for the most part, found Gertie’s enthusiasm refreshing, but at that moment the girl’s usually pale face glowered with temper. She stood with her back to the gleaming black fireplace in the tiny sitting room, her fists dug into her fleshy hips that no corset could diminish.
Altheda Chubb, head housekeeper of the Pennyfoot, hovered anxiously close by, doing her best to look unobtrusive.MoreLess
There weren’t too many women who looked her straight in the eye, but Gertie Brown was one of them. When it came to width, however, Gertie easily exceeded her. Built like the conventional farmer’s daughter, the housemaid actually hailed from London. In a reversal of tradition, at twelve years old she’d sought a position in a seaside town t...o escape what she called “the ’orrible muck and racket.”
James Sinclair had hired her for her strength and her forthright manner, the latter of which he’d regretted on more than one occasion.
Cecily, for the most part, found Gertie’s enthusiasm refreshing, but at that moment the girl’s usually pale face glowered with temper. She stood with her back to the gleaming black fireplace in the tiny sitting room, her fists dug into her fleshy hips that no corset could diminish.
Altheda Chubb, head housekeeper of the Pennyfoot, hovered anxiously close by, doing her best to look unobtrusive.MoreLess
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