Ragged Lady
, by Howells, William Dean- ISBN: 9781419143823 | 1419143824
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 6/30/2004
Gregory had an habitual severity with his own behavior which did not stop there, but was always passing on to the behavior of others; and his days went by in alternate offence and reparation to those he had to do with. He had to do chiefly with the dining-room girls, whose susceptibilities were such that they kept about their work bathed in tears or suffused with anger much of the time.