Describes the Bradbury family. Transcription: borrow something, as books, envelopes, cents &c (generally failing in each) and asked a thousand impertinent questions. She [Anna Bradbury] hooked a book once, when I came down upon her sharply and forbade future visits. The like familiarities she extended throughout the house, partly actuated by her own impudence, partly no doubt by the instructions of her step-mother. That gluttonous, ignorant, low-natured misplaced washerwoman (who possesses diamonds! the women say) piques herself on 'finding out' all about things. When she goes to a watering p
Describes the Bradbury family. Transcription: borrow something, as books, envelopes, cents &c (generally failing in each) and asked a thousand impertinent questions. She [Anna Bradbury] hooked a book once, when I came down upon her sharply and forbade future visits. The like familiarities she extended throughout the house, partly actuated by her own impudence, partly no doubt by the instructions of her step-mother. That gluttonous, ignorant, low-natured misplaced washerwoman (who possesses diamonds! the women say) piques herself on 'finding out' all about things. When she goes to a watering place hotel, she affirms that she always visits the kitchens &c, sits up at night in order to watch 'what's going on' ? wouldn't go to sleep on any account! Old Bradbury beyond being a wretched old bore in a smooth and painfully palpable wig, addicted to tipsyfying himself down town of mornings and talking the dreariest and most inconclusive jobations in a broad Yorkshire dialect, chiefly dispraise of American and laudation of the dry-goods business as carried in thirty years ago ? beyond all this he is harmless. Well, step mother or daughter got to tattling with the woman-half of a quiet couple, a German with an English wife, who don't show at table, rendering said woman half dissatisfied about the price paid for board, Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 11, page 43, July 9, 1859 . 9 July 1859. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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