Excerpt from The Broken Snare

"I Told you not to hold it that way!"

A misery of exasperation vibrated in the voice that rose above the shrill clatter of broken crockery. Frances saw neither her mother nor the drab servant girl to whom the words were spoken; but the apartment was so small that she heard even the angry rustle of skirts and the sound of dragging feet on the bare kitchen floor. With quiet desperation she laid down the volume she had been trying to read. The noises robbed her of repose, not by reason of their loudness, but because their quality expressed, with an insistence that tortured every nerve, those elements of her life which she abhorred. She was afraid that her mother might come in and speak querulously of the servant's carelessness. She would listen, as so often before, quietly.

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