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Eaton Square is a desolate wilderness, where dusty sparrows alone disturb the dreams of frowzy charwomen, who, like Anchorites amid the tombs of the Thebaid, fulfil the contemplative life each in her subterranean cell. Beneath St.
We got into two of the waiting motor-cars all but Sir Walter, who went off to Scotland Yard to 'mobilize MacGillivray', so he said. We marched through empty corridors and big bare chambers where the charwomen were busy, till we reached a little room lined with books and maps. I sat at the desk and the others stood round, for somehow or other I had got charge of this expedition. It was no good.
Nurse was full of sympathy, but before she could bring her mind to the question of charwomen she had to go over all her experience of sprains and what was best for them how some said this, and some said exactly the opposite, and how she herself, after trying all the remedies, had finally been cured by some stuff which folks called a quack medicine, but she thought none the worse of it for that.
"I'm not." Then Lilly rose, smiling as she dressed. The household was not easy of readjustment until finally were procured the services of one of the charwomen from the Bronx Theater, who prepared the meals and could flute Zoe's collars to the utmost delicacy.
From his house the direct road to the lane lay down the High Street, but about a fortnight after that evening in his study he found himself one morning in Deadman's Rents, a narrow, dirty alley which led to the east side of the Common. Deadman's Rents was inhabited by men who worked in brickyards and coalyards, who did odd jobs, and by washerwomen and charwomen. It contained also three beershops.
'No. 'Are there any women servants in the house? 'No, except that three charwomen come in every morning to do up the rooms. 'Of what is his household comprised? 'There is the butler, then the valet, and last, the French cook. 'Ah, cried I, 'the French cook! This case interests me. So Summertrees has succeeded in completely disconcerting your man?
It is a splendid method; but I wish it were applied sometimes to charwomen rather than only to millionaires. There is another way of flattering important people which has become very common, I notice, among writers in the newspapers and elsewhere.
"I never knew knives and forks and things were washed like that," observed Louis. "They generally aren't," said Rachel. "But they ought to be. I leave all the other washing-up for the charwoman in the morning, but I wouldn't trust these to her." Louis acquiesced sagely in this broad generalization as to charwomen. "Why don't you wash the handles of the knives?" he queried.
The church was empty, save for two charwomen who were sweeping the floor of the nave somewhere up by the dark and silent altar; and when the sacristan closed the outer door there was a solemn hush, which was broken only by the priest's voice and the godparents' muttered responses. "Mary Isabel, dost thou renounce Satan?" "I do renounce him." "And all his works?" "I do renounce them."
There, with every day out of work, women become more unemployable clothes and constitutions wear out; minds lose hope in effort and rely on luck. As I sat with a tableful of charwomen and general housework girls in a refuge in Dublin, I read two ads from the paper. One offered a job for a general servant with wages at $50 a year.
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