[The Luckiest Girl in the School by Angela Brazil]@TWC D-Link bookThe Luckiest Girl in the School CHAPTER XI 12/23
I wish I could have a few lessons in face massage.
I wonder how hard one ought to rub? And why a downward movement all the time ?" (Beatrice was stroking her cheeks contemplatively as she spoke.) "Why mayn't you rub upwards ?" "The Princess recommends gentle pinching," said Mollie Hill, who was studying the columns of a rival paper, "and then an application of Mrs. Courtenay's lavender cream.
We ought to be careful not to get freckled or sunburnt.
'Lady Marjorie' gives some splendid prescriptions against both.
I wonder how the papers always get the aristocracy to write their Beauty Hints? I shouldn't have thought they'd have condescended to reveal their secrets!" "My good girl! Don't flatter yourself that either 'Lady Veronica' or 'Lady Marjorie' is a member of the aristocracy," chuckled Bessie Kirk. "They're probably most plebeian and dowdy-looking individuals living in Bloomsbury boarding-houses, with pasty complexions and freckled noses, and they get a percentage on the preparations they recommend.
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