A Rebel's Daughter by Janet Lunn

Author:Janet Lunn [Lunn, Janet]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781443128131
Publisher: Scholastic Canada Ltd
Published: 2016-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

Sunday, 25 March (late at night in the kitchen)

Dear Diary,

This is the first chance in two days that I have had to write a single word on your pages. Cook has had to give me back my free Sunday, but it is raining out. Sukey went out with Joe, in spite of that, so I had the bedroom to myself. I fell asleep. Cook cannot blame me for pinching the coffee (I do so love to use words I know Mama would hate!), so she has been finding mountains of extra work for me. I really believe she will pile chore upon chore until I cannot possibly do them all and then she will go to Mrs. H. and tell her I am unsatisfactory.

As well as doing my regular chores, I have had to wash all the table linens and press them with the smoothing iron. This house has a laundress who comes once a week to take away all the dirty linen but she is ill. (Or perhaps Cook told her not to come so that I would have to do this work — do you see how mistrustful I have become? I think I have good reason to be.) I am so tired and my hands are so red and have such sores on them I can barely write. I wash pots and linen and smell the lye soap in my sleep.

Cook sends me on some of the errands Joe usually does (she tells me that Tim needs Joe in the coach house), even walking Mrs. P.’s Hector, but I do not mind doing that. Hector and I have become friends, he is a clever little spaniel, quick and nimble. Besides that, the days are growing warmer. The snow is all but completely melted. The last of the ice has finally gone out of the harbour and the first steamship has come in — I heard its cannon go off when I was out with Hector. The geese are honking overhead and the sparrows are already at their nest-building in the apple tree in the kitchen garden. If the sores on my hands get worse, I may not be able to write for a few days but you know that you will not be forgotten.

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