My mother was relatively uneducated. Although she won a scholarship to the local grammar school her guardians could not afford to send her there. So she left school at the age of eleven to go into domestic service. She was shrewd, and not on any account to be underestimated. She would come out with the quaintest of pronouncements. One favourite turn of …
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