![]() ![]() ― Martine Bailey, quote from An Appetite for VioletsīookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, It were a crime to ruin those shoes, but there were no denying it, she'd landed in a right old pigsty.” They were made of shiny silver stuff, and in spite of the prettiest heels you ever saw, were already squelched in Mawton mud. I drank in all her marks of fashion: the peachy ribbon holding the little dog she clutched to her bosom, her powdered curls, but most of all it was her shoes I fixed on. What drew my eye was her apricot-colored gown that shone like a diamond. Fetch him at once.' Like magic the scene changed: three or four fellows legged it indoors and those staying behind hung back a bit, fidgeting before this girl that might have dropped from the moon for all we'd ever seen such a being in our yard. She lifted her chin and said in a throaty London drawl, 'Mr Pars. ![]() She weren't afeard of us, no not one whit. She stared at the rabble, her eyes narrowing. “Then I pushed my way through and saw a young woman climb down, no more than my age, only she was as pale as a flour bag, with rosebud lips pressed tight together, and two spots of rouge high on her cheeks. Born place: in Michigan, The United States ![]()
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