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In kurtzen, I know little more of soap-boiling than I do of tailoring, horse-farriery, or shoe-making, all of which I have practised." "Then I know not how you can hope to live like a hertzog in your native canton, unless you expect that the men of Lucerne, in consideration of your services to the Pope and to the king of Spain, will maintain you in splendour at the public expense."
"Soap-boiling isn't a pleasant trade, Harry," he said; "but as the old saying goes, `Dirty work brings clean money. There's always been a comfortable home for you, hasn't there?" "Yes, Uncle," I said impatiently. "And plenty to eat, and drink, and wear?" "Yes, Uncle." "And your father kept you at good schools till you were seventeen or eighteen?" "Yes, Uncle."
I loaded it with wood, upon which I piled about six bushels of oyster-shells, which I then covered with fuel, and kept it burning for twenty-four hours. This produced excellent lime, and I commenced my soap-boiling. We possessed an immense copper pot of Egyptian manufacture, in addition to a large and deep copper basin called a "teshti." These would contain about ten gallons.
Opposite stands the wool-shed, built entirely of galvanized iron; a blinding object to start out of the scrub on a blazing, hot day. God forgive the man who invented galvanized iron, and the greed which introduced it into Australia: you could not get worse roofing material for a hot country. The wool-washing, soap-boiling, and wool-pressing arrangements are further up the dam.
"Ah! it is, Mas'r Harry; but it is hot work, and no mistake, and it sets me thinking a deal." "Well, Tom, what of?" I asked, for we were waiting for the melting. "'Bout setting up soap-boiling out here, Mas'r Harry," he said, grinning. "Well, what about it, Tom?" "'Twouldn't do, Mas'r Harry," said Tom.
"Jean has good fighting qualities," Lucy said. "She will win." "I had a letter from her to-day," said Miss Vance. "Here it is. She says, 'I mean to rebuild the Schloss, and I have put a stop to the soap-boiling business. I will have no fumes of scorching fat in our ancestral halls. Four of the princesses live with us here in the flat. Gussy Carson from Pond City is staying with me now.
In kurtzen, I know little more of soap-boiling than I do of tailoring, horse-farriery, or shoe-making, all of which I have practised. "'Then I know not how you can hope to live like a hertzog in your native canton, unless you expect that the men of Lucerne, in consideration of your services to the Pope and to the King of Spain, will maintain you in splendour at the public expense.
The bleacher, the dyer, the calico-printer, are severally occupied in processes that are well or ill done according as they do or do not conform to chemical laws. Smelting of copper, tin, zinc, lead, silver, iron, must be guided by chemistry. Sugar-refining, gas-making, soap-boiling, gunpowder-manufacture, are operations all partly chemical; as are likewise those which produce glass and porcelain.
Cockayne having been very successful for many years in the soap-boiling business, to the great discomfort and vexation of the noses of his neighbours, and having amassed fortune enough to keep himself and wife and his three blooming daughters among the crême de la crême of Clapham, and in the list of the elect of society, known as carriage-people he had given up the soap-boiling to his two sons, and had made up his mind to enjoy his money, or rather so much of it as Mrs.
Of course he had guessed Quarrier's opinion of the marriage he was making; he could imagine his speaking to Lilian about it with half-contemptuous amusement. The daughter of a man like Mumbray an unformed, scarcely pretty girl, who had inherited a sort of fortune from some soap-boiling family what a culmination to a career of fastidious dilettantism!
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