Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe - Books - Independently Published - 9798668977888 - October 19, 2020
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Moll Flanders

Book Excerpt: ...with a great deal of care. But that which was worth all the rest, she bred them up very religiously, being herself a very sober, pious woman, very house- wifely and clean, and very mannerly, and with good behaviour. So that in a word, expecting a plain diet, coarse lodging, and mean clothes, we were brought up as mannerly and as genteelly as if we had been at the dancing-school. I was continued here till I was eight years old, when I was terrified with news that the magistrates (as I think they called them) had ordered that I should go to service. I was able to do but very little service wherever I was to go, except it was to run of errands and be a drudge to some cookmaid, and this they told me of often, which put me into a great fright; for I had a thorough aversion to going to service, as they called it (that is, to be a servant), though I was so young; and I told my nurse, as we called her, that I believed I could get my living without going to service, if she pleased to let me; for she had...

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released October 19, 2020
ISBN13 9798668977888
Publishers Independently Published
Pages 258
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 15 mm   ·   381 g
Language English  

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