[The Victorian Detectives 08] - Fame & Fortune by Carol Hedges

Author:Carol Hedges [Hedges, Carol]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B08G58NVQB
Publisher: Little G Books
Published: 2020-08-16T23:00:00+00:00

For a moment, her heart sinks, as the gap between her world and that of her small benefactress opens up in front of her like a bottomless chasm. To hide the tears springing to her eyes, she turns to the window again. ‘Give Them the Gift of Happiness’ says the sign above the rocking horse. She reads it laboriously, spelling out each word through a hot, wet blur.

Izzy takes a deep breath. Swallows. Wipes her eyes on her ragged coat sleeve and reads the sign again. And again. And then it dawns upon her. She managed to find the right store to deliver her box. She has just read a sign in a display window. She. Can. Read!

Suddenly, Izzy Harding feels a great wave of happiness break over her. She is no beggar-girl: she is a reader! She has all the riches of the printed word at her command. A gift more precious than anything else.

Later, after her shift at Mrs Sarah McAdam’s Select City Dining Room finishes, Izzy will go home and add the silver sixpence to her other treasures: the shiny brass button, the length of bright scarlet ribbon, the sheet of gold leaf, the six farthings, the miniature dolls’ tea-set and the green velvet pincushion.

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