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Madame Flirt

CHAPTER VI
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True, her appearance just now had little of this "quality," her walk being in fact somewhat limping and one-sided.

But there was good reason for this defect.

She had lost one of her high-heeled shoes, that with which she had battered the coach window.
In spite of her protest of not caring, Lavinia's heart went pit-a-pat when she entered the hot, frowsy, greasy air of the coffee house.
Customers were clamouring to be served and there was no Hannah to wait upon them.

Mrs.Fenton, her eyes flashing fire, was bustling up and down between the rows of boxes and denouncing the truant waitress in vigorous Billingsgate.
Mrs.Fenton had her back turned to the door when Hannah entered with Lavinia and the two were half way down the gangway before the lady noticed them.

At the sight of her daughter she dropped the dish of eggs and bacon she was about to deposit in front of a customer and stared aghast.
Every eye was turned upon Lavinia who, shaking herself free from Hannah's friendly support, hastened towards her astonished mother, anxious to avoid a scene under which in her shattered nerves she might break down.
"Devil fetch me," Mrs.Fenton ejaculated before she had recovered from the shock.


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