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I tell Mary, 'Always do up your work in the forenoon. Girls must learn that. I never work afternoons, after my dinner-dishes are got away; I never did and never would." "Nor I, neither," chimed in Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Twitchel, both anxious to show themselves clear on this leading point of New England house-keeping. "There's another thing I always tell Mary," said Mrs. Katy, impressively.
He was quite cowed and intimidated by this strange mood of his mother's, and involuntarily shrank closer to his father when she passed near him. Caleb and Ephraim both watched Deborah with furtive terror, as she moved about, washing and putting away the dinner-dishes and sweeping the kitchen.
The latter returned to the kitchen, to resume the washing of the dinner-dishes; and the former returned to his post at the window.
There were chased goblets, also, and tureens, salvers, dinner-dishes and dish-covers of gold or silver-gilt, besides chains and other jewels, incalculably rich, though tarnished with the damps of the vault; for, of all the wealth that was irrevocably lost to man, whether buried in the earth or sunken in the sea, Peter Goldthwaite had found it in this one treasure-place.
She only repeated what she had already told her daughter-in-law. "The bundle came on the noon express," said she, "and I told Mr. Perry to set it down in the kitchen, and I would see that it got over to you. He didn't know how to stop just then. It laid there on one of the kitchen-chairs while I was clearing away the dinner-dishes.
But he did it much as house-dogs in the world of civilization put their noses into their well-filled dinner-dishes, with a deliberate absence of gusto which would have simply astounded any understanding observer who could have seen it. The other seven dogs were blissfully unconscious of anything under heaven outside their own ravening lust of flesh.
With a weary pain at her head and heart, she went about the household work of the afternoon. The dinner-dishes were put away, and the room was swept and dusted, in silence.
And what made it more curious, these despairin' thoughts come to me as I stood by the sink, washin' my dinner-dishes. "Josiah Allen's wife, you must not sink. You must keep up. If you have no power to help your pardner to patriotism and honor, you can, if your worst fears are realized, try to keep him to home.
"I don't doubt but we shall have showers this afternoon," said Father Flower, when he came in from the garden for his dinner. After the dinner-dishes were washed up, and the baby rocked to sleep, Flax came to her mother with a petition. "Mother," said she, "won't you give me a holiday this afternoon?" "Why, where do you want to go, Flax?" said her mother.
It was between two and three o'clock: the sun would be full on the flagstones of the back verandah; inch by inch Pin and Leppie would be driven away to find a cooler spot for their afternoon game, while little Frank slept, and Sarah splashed the dinner-dishes in the brick-floored kitchen.
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