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If the heroine of a story took a "cursory glance" about her "apartment," Rebecca would shortly ask her Aunt Jane to take a "cursory glance" at her oversewing or hemming; if the villain "aided and abetted" someone in committing a crime, she would before long request the pleasure of "aiding and abetting" in dishwashing or bedmaking.

Until then it is for you to order, be it to cooking or to bedmaking." "You'll serve for sport and as a relief to monotony, if for nothing else," said Ellerey. "Orders, then. We must be starting." "You have not heard my further news," said Anton. "It is not time to start yet." Ellerey turned upon him angrily. Was his authority so soon to be questioned?

Grigosie is a good scout, and I warrant is likely to prove useful," said Anton. "For cooking and bedmaking maybe. "A stroke or two of the whip would make you tell a different tale," said Ellerey; "and you may thank your lucky fortune that I will not take you, for the whip would certainly follow." "I have heard of Captain Ellerey," said the boy, "but never that he was a bully."

Somehow I always see him like that, making beds, stooping over something, doing something for one of them or for me. Sometimes they would burst in on him suddenly in his bedmaking and throw pillows at him, or it might be sponges, and there would be madness: two girls running amok and little Jevons flying before them through the house and squealing in his excitement.

"My castle, Anton," whispered Grigosie. "It was I who told them that it stood here." "They liked not your claiming it so." "They will forgive much to my youth, even if I am put to cooking and bedmaking to-night as punishment," laughed the boy. "You shall be snug, Anton, and know that the gods are with us."

I'm afraid that he'll change things, that he'll not approve of Martha, or the way dinner is made, or my habits in dishwashing or bedmaking or marketing or something that will well, put me right in the role of a paid chambermaid, a servant, a menial with no more to say about the running of the house, once he returns." James Holden hesitated, thought, then smiled. "Mrs.

She watched her as she went silently about her work of sweeping and bedmaking, and she knew by a sort of divination that here was a real heroine, a sufferer or a doer of something. Mrs. Thorne pronounced the new maid good, but "awfully solemn."

Every bedroom will have its own bath-dressing room which any well-bred person will be intelligent and considerate enough to use and leave without the slightest disarrangement. This, so far as "upstairs" goes, really only leaves bedmaking to be done, and a bed does not take five minutes to make. Downstairs a vast amount of needless labour at present arises out of table wear.

His basic idea had been to free himself from the hours of dishwashing, bedmaking, dusting, cleaning and straightening and from the irking chore of planning his meals far enough ahead to obtain sustenance either through mail or carried note. He gave up his haphazard chores readily. Mrs.

I want to live to see this thing out, but it would be nice to crawl into a hole, like a bear, and sleep comfortably until the sun came out in the spring, and the seeds began to sprout, and the army was thawed out, and could move. In the silence on this hilltop, where nothing happens but dishwashing and bedmaking and darning stockings, it is a long way to springtime, even if it comes early.