Cornishwomen

Katie Jacka, her colour more set than it had been when she witnessed that marriage eight years ago, was as emotional as ever, her facile feelings only restrained at all by her husband's rigid taciturnity, even as her high bosom was kept up by the stiffest of "temberan busks" -- a piece of wood which, like all self-respecting Cornishwomen, she wore thrust inside the front of her stays.

Secret Bread F. Tennyson Jesse