A Life for a Life

I am not, the least in the world! which I would fain have explained, only mere friends can never understand the ins and outs of a family. If I offered to assist her in the house, how Penelope would stare! Or even in her schools and parish--but that I cannot do. Teaching is to me perfectly intolerable. The moment I have to face two dozen pairs of round eyes, every particle of sense takes flight, and I become the veriest of cowards, ready to sink through the floor. The same, too, in district visiting. What business have I, because I happen to be the clergymans daughter, to go lifting the latch, and poking about poor peoples houses, obliging them to drop me curtseys, and receive civilly my tracts and advice--which they neither read nor follow, and might be none the better for it if they did.

Product details

• Authors: Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
• Publisher: University Of Michigan Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2006
• EAN: 9781425542979
• ISBN: 978-1-4255-4297-9
• No. of pages: 396
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 553 g
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous