I decided to win her over with my charm, so I smiled up at her with a powerful grin that showed all my teeth. Then she added, without the least bit of conviction, "She'll make someone a lovely daughter someday." My aunt stared back at me through the inch or so of open door, inspecting me like I was a sack of mealy flour.
But what chores could a body get done on a farm while wearing a dress, I'd like to know? And the brown trousers might not be something you see every day on a fancy city girl. My clothes might have looked a bit on the masculine side, what with having to take my brother's best traveling coat for the long journey to Chicago. Surely her vision was failing, because I was obviously not some stinky schoolboy standing here before her. I studied her eye through the crack in the door just to see if the woman was wearing spectacles. "Girl," the Right Reverend declared, giving his throat a good clearing. "Surely someone will come and take the, the…" Without you, the child is destined to a most piteous life in the orphan asylum." "You are the waif's last relation in the world. Warne," said the Right Reverend, sliding his pointy black boot forward just a hint to keep her door from slamming shut on his petition. I quickly ran my hands over my head to smooth down my hair from the center, lest she start commenting on the size of my ears. "Take in this gangly urchin you claim is one of my kin? One look tells me the child hasn't made the acquaintance of a bar of lye in a good many years, not to mention been in the same two-mile vicinity of a comb." It opened just a few inches to allow a single blue eye to survey me up and down. You're expecting me to do what?" snapped a peevish voice from the other side of the heavy wooden door.
Based on the extraordinary true story of Kate Warne, this fast-paced adventure recounts feats of daring and danger.including saving the life of Abraham Lincoln! The incredible tale of America's first ever female detective and her spirited niece! Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.In Which I Find Myself on the Doorstep of a Pickled Onion With huge, nation-changing events simmering in the background, Nell uses skills new and old to uncover truths about her past and solve mysteries in the present.
And Nell has a knack for the kind of close listening and bold action that made Pinkerton detectives famous in Civil War-era America. For Aunt Kate is the first-ever female detective employed by the legendary Pinkerton Detective Agency. Luckily, canny Nell makes herself indispensable to Aunt Kate.and not just by helping out with household chores. If her Aunt Kate rejects her, it's the miserable Home for the Friendless. Eleven-year-old Nell Warne arrives on her aunt's doorstep lugging a heavy sack of sorrows.
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