Excerpt from John of Daunt"Oh, 'tis a parlous boyBold, quick, ingenious, forward, capable." - Richard III.Daisy, now down on all-fours while she rubbed linoleum cream into the hall floor, now sitting on her heels for respite and to replenish the moisture on her cloth, caught a glimpse of pink high above her head. It was very familiar pink, but the glimpse being taken in through her eye-corners only, hardly reached her brain. She tried with an arm sweep to remove the marks of feet just beneath the telephone, but the cloth was dry again and there is no time before breakfast to be prodigal with elbow-grease alone. She sat up and reached for the tin of cream once more.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.