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Updated: May 23, 2025
Mrs Penhaligon's father had been a groom in Squire Tresawna's service, and she had a trick of hissing softly while she scrubbed, as grooms do in washing-down and curry combing their horses. He could hear the sound whenever her brush intromitted its harsh whoosh-whoosh and she paused to apply fresh soap. So they worked, the man and the woman both kneeling with the thin door between.
There would be waggons waiting to convey them up-inland to Squire Tresawna's pleasure-grounds to high shaven lawns whereon, for once in the year, they could enjoy themselves running about upon the level. And the wastage at these particular points of his tailoring persists when he grows up to manhood; for a crabber sits much on the thwart of a boat and drives with his heels against a stretcher.
She has two maids; one of them in a grey velours dress that must have been one of Mrs Tresawna's cast-offs, for it couldn't possibly have come out of her wages; though, by the fit, it might have been made for her." A little before ten o'clock Nicky-Nan climbed the stairs painfully to his bedroom, undressed in part, and lay down but not to sleep.
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