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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1871 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVII. If the season had an influence on Warner, it had also an influence, though of another kind, on Kate. When Belgravia is amusing itself, Bond Street is sure to be busy; and West End trade, which ministers to luxury, is pursued till late and resumed early. The season left Kate little time for thinking either of amateur theatricals or of the regular pursuit of the dramatic art. She was eminently practical, and not even the remembrance of her success in the farce could induce her to neglect her daily task of sewing in the work-room and selling in the shop. But now July had drawn to a close. The fashionable world--duly supplied with corsets--had left the West End streets and squares, and was scattered over the country and abroad. The stress of work was over. Madame Rose, whose temper had been sorely tried by the impatience of her customers and by what she thought the slowness of her assistants, now felt happier, as in moments of leisure she inspected the account-books in the almost deserted shop, and the milk of human kindness rose visibly in her being when she assured herself that her business had been.not only large but exceedingly profitable. "Madame Rose's connection," Kate was wont to say, "will have only the best and can afford to pay for it." And indeed one article of the." Court corsetmaker's" creed was that the upper classes enjoyed paying a high price for everything they bought; and Madame Rose not unnaturally reasoned that this was a pleasure she had not the heart to deny them. In the beginning of August Kate was informed that she might take a holiday and be absent for a month. This was good news, and Kate arranged to stay away from the 15th. Vol. 1. 11 She at once communicated with the manager who had seen her act with Charley's company ...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0217390315
- ISBN 13 9780217390316
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages40
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