Cousin Cinderella Author:Sara Jeannette Duncan General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1908 Original Publisher: The Macmillan Company Subjects: Fiction / General Fiction / Anthologies Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Fiction / Short Stories Literary Collections / Canadian Literary Criticism / American / General Literary Criticism / Canadia... more »n Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III I Never shall forget the day we moved in, and the young man came from the agent. It was one of the first things we noticed, the number of young men in London who come on different errands and seem to have a legitimate excuse for ringing the bell and being taken into different parts of your flat. They are often quite smooth and sleek, with black coats and unimpeachable collars, like the young man from the agent, or they may wear respectable billy-cocks like the young man about the electric light, or billy-cocks on the back of the head like the young man about the gas cooking-stove, or merely cloth caps like the young man from Barker's by mistake; but they all have little narrow books sticking out of their coat- pockets; and they all come and ring, and worry Towse, who drats them behind their backs, though they treat her with the utmost respect. They seem to form a class by themselves, a kind of sub-profession so small to be so respectable, and so respectable to be so small; and one wonders whether they stay in it always, and how much you can be when you get to the top. They look finished and accomplished, as if their purpose in life was entirely achievedin becoming the young men from the agent; and they take themselves as seriously as possible. Very likely they marry, and bring up funny little respectable families in some funny litt...« less