 ... pictures, and music, and beautiful things, and often went without food to get a taste of them. Yet, as I grew to be a woman, I hated the life. I longed for softness and refinement, as other women long for finery and admiration. Perhaps it was because...  Kitty - Page 243by Matilda Betham-Edwards - 1869Full view - About this book
 | Matilda Betham-Edwards - 1872 - 540 pages
...for finery and admiration. Perhaps it was because I came of gentle blood — so they told me — and the instinct of respectability was too strong for...used to sit at home — a very Cinderella among the ashes— thinking, thinking ; scheming, scheming. I had no gifts ; that was the worst of it. I could... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1903 - 532 pages
...for finery and admiration. Perhaps it was because I came of gentle blood — so they told me — and the instinct of respectability was too strong for...used to sit at home — a very Cinderella among the ashes — thinking, thinking; scheming, scheming. I had no gifts ; that was the worst of it. I could... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1868 - 592 pages
...for finery and admiration. Perhaps it was because I came of gentle blood — so they told me — and the instinct of respectability was too strong for...used to sit at home — a very Cinderella among the dirt — thinking, thinking ; scheming, scheming. I had no talents ; that was the worst of it. I could... | |
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