The Goodliffe Family of Nottingham

The Story of My Life - The original, handwritten version of the Memoirs of Arnold Goodliffe

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master”. Of course it shocked my sense of propriety, as a mode of treatment of such an amiable smiling woman. I lived soon to see the other side of the picture. One little specimen out of many as an illustration:- Not long after the honey moon had set, a dress maker came to make up some apparel for her, we were sitting down to an early breakfast, the old lady was in her tantrums. Her young husband courteously helped the choicest morsel to the damsel, who I believe was her cousin. The jealous old vixen in a rage flung a hot cup of coffee at him because he helped the young dress-maker first. The devil in him was aroused. She had to cut and run and after receiving eve offerings in her posterior parts. She had to lock herself up

     

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