Excerpt from Janita's Cross, Vol. 3 of 3 The prospect must have been a pleasant one, for Bessie loitered over it so long that she had scarcely time to thrust the glass back into the box before Abigail, puffing and panting, and looking very bad-tempered, came up stairs to go through the very needful process of cleaning herself. Poor Abigail, who had spent a full hour the night before in curling her scant tow-coloured hair all the way round, except a little bit on each side her forehead, which she plaited very tight, in order that when it was let out next afternoon, it might be all of a pucker in and out like Bessie's. When it was undone it did indeed prove to be all of a pucker, but not at all such a pretty pucker as Bessie's, which made the plain cook worse tem pered than before, and she resolved in her own mind that she never would take a place again where there was such a pretty young woman as Bessie Ashton, it brought nothing but disagree ableness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.