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The Gold that Glitters

"Jenny, my dear maid, thou wilt never fetch white meal out of a sack of sea-coal." Jenny tossed her head. It would have been a nice little brown head, if it had not been quite so fond of tossing itself. But Jenny was just sixteen, and laboured under a delusion which besets young folks of that age--namely, that half the brains in the world had got into her head, and very few had been left in her grandmother's. "I don't know what you mean, Grandmother," said Jenny, as an accompaniment to that toss | 1 PROJECT GUTENBERG THE GOLD THAT GLITTERS Emily Sarah Holt CHAPTER ONE. CHAPTER TWO. CHAPTER THREE. CHAPTER FOUR. CHAPTER FIVE. CHAPTER SIX. The Gold that Glitters The Mistakes of Jenny Lavender By Emily Sarah Holt CHAPTER ONE. 2 CHAPTER ONE. JENNY PREPARES TO GO A-JOURNEYING. Jenny my dear maid thou wilt never fetch white meal out of a sack of sea-coal. Jenny tossed her head. It would have been a nice little brown head if it had not been quite so fond of tossing itself. But Jenny was just sixteen and laboured under a delusion which besets young folks of that age--namely that half the brains in the world had got into her head and very few had been left in her grandmother s. I don t know what you mean Grandmother said Jenny as an accompaniment to that toss. O Jenny Jenny what a shocking thing of you to say when you knew what your grandmother meant as well as you knew your name was Jane Lavender I rather think thou dost my lass said old Mrs Lavender quietly. Well I suppose you mean to run down Mr Featherstone said Jenny pouting. You re always running him down. And there isn t a bit of use in it--not with me. I like him and I always shall. He s such a gentleman and always so soft-spoken. But I believe you like that clod-hopper Tom Fenton ever so much better. I can t abide him. There s a deal more of the feather than the stone about Robin Featherstone lass. If he be a stone he s a rolling one. Hasn t he been in three places since he came here Yes because they didn t use him right in none of em. Wanted him to do things out of his place and such like. Why at Hampstead Hall they set him to chop wood. Well why not asked Mrs Lavender knitting away. Because it wasn t his place answered Jenny indignantly. It made his hands all rough and he s that like a gentleman he couldn t stand it. Tom Fenton would have done it I shouldn t wonder. As if it would have mattered to Tom Fenton with his great red hands They couldn t be no rougher than they are if he chopped wood while .