The Maid's Secret
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CHAPTER ONE Hull, 1860 Harriet trudged up High Street towards the George and Dragon. How she hated this job! The customers with their stinking breath and coarse hands on her backside, who she had to push away with a smile and quizzical eyebrow so as not to upset them, so that they didn’t get nasty or complain about her to the landlord. The landlord wasn’t so bad; he saw what was going on and didn’t blame her for it, but his wife was a harri...dan.
Still, it was a job and they were hard to come by. She sighed. I suppose I must count my blessings and be thankful that I managed to find extra work at ’hostelry, she thought, but even so I don’t see how I can manage to pay ’rent, not if we want to eat. If I’d been nicer to ’mill foreman he might have kept me on full time, but his wandering hands are worse than ’hostelry customers’, and him with a wife and four bairns. So he punished me and has put me on half time, until I change my mind, which I won’t.MoreLess
CHAPTER ONE Hull, 1860 Harriet trudged up High Street towards the George and Dragon. How she hated this job! The customers with their stinking breath and coarse hands on her backside, who she had to push away with a smile and quizzical eyebrow so as not to upset them, so that they didn’t get nasty or complain about her to the landlord. The landlord wasn’t so bad; he saw what was going on and didn’t blame her for it, but his wife was a harri...dan.
Still, it was a job and they were hard to come by. She sighed. I suppose I must count my blessings and be thankful that I managed to find extra work at ’hostelry, she thought, but even so I don’t see how I can manage to pay ’rent, not if we want to eat. If I’d been nicer to ’mill foreman he might have kept me on full time, but his wandering hands are worse than ’hostelry customers’, and him with a wife and four bairns. So he punished me and has put me on half time, until I change my mind, which I won’t.MoreLess
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