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A clean room, a hot dish for dinner, and a bottle of not absolutely poisonous wine, are all I want tonight. But I want that much without the trouble of going one unnecessary inch to get it.
Then, too, as we cleaned them while they were staked out, we were obliged to kneel down upon them, which always gives beginners the back-ache. The first day I was so slow and awkward that I cleaned only eight; at the end of a few days I doubled my number; and, in a fortnight or three weeks, could keep up with the others, and clean my twenty-five.
Since then she had not seen at all, and having in mind her long warning, accepted her blindness as a permanent thing. She passed now through a world of blackness. She could not see the man who had written those letters to her. She could catch only the wine of a high, clean air, the breath of pine trees, the feeling of space, appreciable even by the blind. Suddenly she began to sob.
He wore no coat nor vest, and his shirt was of the coarsest muslin, but it was quite clean. This boy was Ben Mayberry, then ten years old, and he was a remarkable fellow in more than one respect. His round face was not only the picture of absolutely perfect health, but it showed unusual intelligence and brightness.
I longed to fall upon that house at once and clean it up, but I had to wait until the doctor came back with my wrapper. I could not clean house in my new suit and a silk shirtwaist. Alexander Abraham was sitting on a chair looking at me. Presently he said, "I am NOT curious but will you kindly tell me why the doctor called you Peter?"
He had been through a good deal since his last chance to wash and clean up, and he was grimmy and dirty. He discovered, too, that he was ravenously hungry. Until that moment, he had been too active, too busy with brain and body, to notice his hunger. However, there was nothing to be done for that now.
Every delicacy and luxury the big house held was at the command of the sufferer and that without stint. In all these clean flower-set cottages there was not a single crippled servant maimed in the service of his master. No black man or woman was allowed to do dangerous work. All dangerous tasks were done by hired white laborers. They were hired by the day under contract through their boss.
She had made him her messenger on one occasion, and he had seen Sally Calkins take from the basket the clean, sweet-smelling sheets that were to freshen her brother's bed, and bestow on them rapturous kisses, while she murmured, "I'd walk on my knees in broad daylight through the gutter to serve her, that I would."
Johnson, 'That all things considered, she thought he should certainly go. I flew back to him, still in dust, and careless of what should be the event, 'indifferent in his choice to go or stay; but as soon as I had announced to him Mrs. Williams' consent, he roared, 'Frank, a clean shirt, and was very soon drest.
"Come, Stumpy, ain't you going down to the boat?" asked Leopold, as he began to move in a different direction from that of his friend. "No hurry is there? I want to go to the spring, and clean up a little," replied the clam-digger.
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