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If a man liked his egg half-boiled, she would bear it in her mind for ever. She would know the proper day for making this marmalade and that preserve; and she would never lose her good looks for a moment when she was doing these things. With her little dusting-brush at her girdle, no eyes that knew anything would ever take her for aught but a lady. She was just the wife for Yorke Clayton.
Early the next morning I heard them preparing Lady Betty's room, and once when I went into the passage in search of Chatty I met Leah coming out with a dusting-brush: she looked very sullen, and took no notice of my greeting.
On his head he wore a huge paper cap that had been painted red, white, and blue, and ornamented with a tuft of feathers that had once done service in a dusting-brush.
On them alone depends the condition of the house; from those which may not unjustly be called ante-rooms of hell, to those again which, spite of their earthly imperfections, spite of many a visitation of duster and dusting-brush, yet may deserve the names of courts of heaven. And where, Sara, where in this world will you find an existence free from earthly dust?
Then the housemaid came running down the stairs singing into the kitchen, dusting-brush and dust-pan in her hands a pretty girl with dark merry bright eyes, and her brown hair worn frizzled on her forehead. "My!" she exclaimed, starting back at seeing Fan.
With a broom in one hand, and feather dusting-brush in the other, she ran down the front steps, her white cap strings flying like distress signals, bent down to the ground as a blood-hound might in scenting a trail, then dashed back into the quiet old house, and uttered a wolfish cry: "Robbers! Burglars! Thieves!"
The brick floor had never known other cleansing than sprinkling and sweeping, the yellow-washed walls had become with time a pale, mottled brown, the paint had disappeared under a fixed dinginess which the dusting-brush alone could not remove, and the glass of the windows had never been washed except by the rain. Yet, for all that, the place had an air of cleanliness.
The floor was covered with strips of rag carpet, very neat and of a pretty, quiet color, loosely laid down. Against the wall, near the stove, hung a dust-pan, shovel, dusting-brush, and small broom. A door opened into an inner room, which contained another bed and conveniences for washing. A closet in the wall held matches, soap, and other articles. Every thing was scrupulously neat and clean.
You let him see you was only amusing yourself with him, and you come out with me when you get your evening. And he took the dusting-brush out of my hand, and caught hold of my wrists. 'It's all a lie! I cried; 'and I wonder you can look me in the face and tell it.
The mistress can follow with the dusting-brush and the cloth, and, again, the maid may come in her footstep with step- ladder, and wipe off mirrors and windows.
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