grate-cleaning

Updated: May 23, 2025

Curiously enough, it was only Eliza who divined in him a secret hankering after his eldest daughter Cecilia, who would have been very much astonished had anyone hinted at such a thing to her. The sharp eyes of the little Cockney were not to be deceived in any matter concerning the only person in the house who treated her as if she were a human being and not a grate-cleaning automaton.

Mary Grant Bruce - Back to Billabong