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She wandered far and near, and soiled her white gowns, to the despair of the Otter servant who did up the master's shirts and managed the mistress's clear-starching, but who never dreamt, in those days of frills, robes, and flounces, of styling herself a laundress.
She cut up gladly her own velvets for that purpose, and Martha considered the clear-starching of his lace collars and ruffles one of her most important duties. One morning, at the close of January, Elizabeth had to go to the village, and she told Harry when his lessons were finished to wait at the Curate's until she called for him.
It makes the very heart bleed to overhear the casual street-talk between a poor woman and her little girl, a woman of the better sort of poor, in a condition rather above the squalid beings which we have been contemplating. It is of mangling and clear-starching, of the price of coals, or of potatoes.
You see, I understand my work thoroughly, and attend to it all myself. Washing, ironing, clear-starching, making up gents' fine shirts for evening wear everything's done under my own eye! 'But surely you don't DO all that work yourself, ma'am? asked the barge-woman respectfully. 'O, I have girls, said Toad lightly: 'twenty girls or thereabouts, always at work.
Among minor accomplishments of the Troyen of to-day, it may be mentioned that nowhere throughout all France land par excellence of good washing and clear-starching is linen got up to such perfection as at Troyes. The Blanchisserie Troyenne is unhappily an art unknown in England.
It is of mangling and clear-starching, of the price of coals, or of potatoes. The questions of the child, that should be the very outpourings of curiosity in idleness, are marked with forecast and melancholy providence. It has come to be a woman, before it was a child.
So Davis the butcher has been pulled up for bad meat; I thought it would come to that, and I'm glad of it. There's a capital lock and key, Jack, to put to your chest, when you get one; suppose you take that. What's the doctor about? They say he is always sitting with the widow. Does your mother make plenty of money by clear-starching?
He was a trained valet, however, expert in all the details of dressing hair, powdering, curling, pomatuming, and other intricacies of the toilet of a man of fashion of that day. Cæsar had many arts at command touching the burnishing of buckles and buttons, and even in clear-starching steinkirks and the cambric ruffles of shirts.
You see, I understand my work thoroughly, and attend to it all myself. Washing, ironing, clear-starching, making up gents' fine shirts for evening wear everything's done under my own eye!" "But surely you don't do all that work yourself, ma'am?" asked the barge-woman respectfully. "O, I have girls," said Toad lightly: "twenty girls or thereabouts, always at work.
"But what with the rent and the schooling, and one thing and another, I found that the rent of my bit shop would not pay all expenses, so I took in washing and dressing for the folk about Swinton. I was aye clever at it, and I got a great inkling about clear-starching and fine dressing from that Mrs. Bennett, at Mr. Phillips's station, for she was a particular good laundress.
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