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As the only way in which they could ease their minds and bear the delay, they set about spring cleaning with an energy which scared the spiders and drove charwomen distracted. If the old house had been infected with smallpox, it could not have been more vigorously scrubbed, aired, and refreshed.
Those poor women, again, who stop to gaze upon us with delight at the entrance of Barnet, and seem, by their air of weariness, to be returning from labour do you mean to say that they are washerwomen and charwomen? Oh, my poor friend, you are quite mistaken.
The pulpit rises into the dim damp air, covered with brown holland, reminding one of desertion and charwomen, if not of a chamber of death and spiritual undertakers, who have shrouded and coffined the truth.
Those comic monstrosities which the critics found incredible will be found to be the immense majority of the citizens of this country. We shall find that Sweedlepipe cuts our hair and Pumblechook sells our cereals; that Sam Weller blacks our boots and Tony Weller drives our omnibus. In cabmen, in cobblers, in charwomen, individuality is often pushed to the edge of insanity.
I expect the Destroyers got back some time before the big ships, and we shall hear later in the day. Rob will telegraph to me directly he gets into harbour, I know." She spoke with calm conviction, as if wars and rumours of wars held no terrors for her. "And now," she said, smiling to them both, "let's be charwomen and drink tea in the middle of the forenoon!"
All the stolid and yet wary conservatism of her character revolted against meals at odd hours, brown bread, apples, orange-sucking, action of the skin, male cooking, camp-beds, the frowsiness of casual charwomen, bare heads, and especially bare windows. If Rachel had been absolutely free to civilize Julian's life, she would have begun by measuring the bay-window. She said firmly
"Well, what can you expect? A country where all the charwomen are men and all the garbage men are women!" For the moment the two have talked each other out, and so they lounge upon the rail in silence and gaze out over the valley. Anon the gumchewer spits. By now the sun has reached the skyline to the westward and the tops of the ice mountains are in gorgeous conflagration.
I've had a pen'orth of bread and pen'orth of soup during the last two days often goes without altogether. There are women sleep out here. They are decent people, mostly charwomen and such like who can't get work." No.4. Elderly man; trembles visibly with excitement at mention of work; produces a card carefully wrapped in old newspaper, to the effect that Mr.
Standing in the dark with a tray in my hand I heard a man's voice saying gleefully, "I haven't been out of bed this two months!" Some one lit a candle, and by its light I saw all the charwomen from the kitchen bending about like broken weeds, and every officer was saying, "There, there now!" We watched the fires till midnight from the hill. I went over this morning early.
So they were only talking about her all the time! That night her husband told her that her release had come. It had been ordained that she was to rest for two years. And she was to have help. They must have a girl. "Arthur," she said, firmly, "I won't have a girl. They're worse than charwomen. They eat more; and we can't afford it." "We must afford it.
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