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I went to my new home, and found my new mistress very glad to see me. Mr. Willi owned two servants before he purchased me, Robert and Charlotte. Robert was an excellent white-washer, and hired his time from his master, paying him one dollar per day, besides taking care of himself. He was known in the city by the name of Bob Music.
When she saw her husband at the gate she dropped her broom and ran into his arms like a child. "Oh, Buddie, Buddie," she cried, "are not our palings beautiful? Muddie did them for a surprise for you!" "Buddie" was enthusiastic in admiration of the white palings and praised the gentle white-washer to the skies.
I shuddered as I entered the prison door-way, though fifty years had passed since the last and most distinguished of its victims had entered here, the Vice-king Iturrigaray. Here, too, the hand of the white-washer had been busy, and the cells were now made comfortable rooms for the soldiery.
Mother was sure you'd let her, an' we were goin' to send Carruthers to a deaf 'n' dumb school after you'd wore white clo'es enough. He isn't dumb, but he's deaf. He can't hear Elly Precious laugh only yell. Mother heard that you always wore white dresses an' she most hugged herself she hugged us. She said you'd prob'ly find out what a good white-washer she was an' let her white-wash you.
Hiddee is the slave whom the Bashaw has been quizzing so severely about the mighty armies of his master. A number of women are now occupied opposite to us in white-washing or white-claying the Guard-house, this chef-d'œuvre of Mourzuk architecture. The women alone do this work, and as their privilege. There are about thirty of them so occupied, under the command of a queen white-washer.
Odessa is not an old town, but it looks brand-new, for there has been of late a great deal of building, and the crumbling nature of the stone keeps the mason and white-washer perpetually at work. It is lively, though monotonous, for its broad, straight streets are astir with business, and the rattle of hackney-carriages, heavy-laden vans, and tramway-cars is incessant.
I'm breathing easy so not to breathe the smell out. I never had any roses before." Her voice lowered to almost a whisper. She whispered a little laugh. "Seems as if I'd ought to be married while I have 'em! They're such beautiful roses to be married in!" And this was Stefana, their matter-of-fact, starchy little white-washer! This rapt, dreamy little face was Stefana's face!
"W . Three-fourths black; barber and waiter; from Kentucky; nineteen years free; paid for self and family over three thousand dollars; deacon in the Baptist church. "G. D . Three-fourths black; white-washer; from Kentucky; nine years free; paid fifteen hundred dollars for self and family; recently died, aged sixty; worth six thousand dollars."
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