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Didn't I catch him prowling into my garden? And isn't it for him to say what his business was? I put it to your honour" here she caught the poor wretch another cuff "what honest business took him into my garden, and me left a widow-woman these sixteen years?"
'Then tell 'em! cried the young woman. 'I will I will. But be considerate, I beg 'ee, mee deer. Well I wasn't a bachelor when I married 'ee, any more than you were a spinster. Just as you was a widow-woman, I was a widow-man. 'Ah! said she, with some surprise. 'But is that all? then we are nicely balanced, she added, relieved. 'No it is not all. There's the point. I am not only a widower.
Not only did they obtain the finest and freshest possible vegetables, but at the same time they were happy with the knowledge that they were helping a deserving widow-woman. Yes, and it gave a certain tone to their establishments to be able to say they bought Mrs. Mortimer's vegetables. But that's too big a side to go into.
He's lately got married to a widow-woman." "Not Jack Dollop? A villain to think o' that!" said a milker. The name entered quickly into Tess Durbeyfield's consciousness, for it was the name of the lover who had wronged his sweetheart, and had afterwards been so roughly used by the young woman's mother in the butter-churn.
But then I bethought me that I was a Stranger among them; that they might be Jealous of me; and, indeed, when I imparted my design to the Widow-woman Giessens, who was beholden to me, she said, for that I had warned her how poor a guest I was growing, she told me that much interest was needed to obtain one of these Bather's places almost as much, forsooth, as is wanted to get the berth of a Tide-waiter in England, and these rascals were always waiting for the tide.
Thus will his wishes be accomplished, and over and above, you will have gotten an alms for the love of God." Satan took the cup and said: "Good brother, suffer a poor widow-woman to kiss your hand. For verily the hand that gives gifts is soft and fragrant." Fra Giovanni replied: "Lady, be heedful not to kiss my hand. On the contrary, begone with all speed.
The only friend she seemed to have was the young wife of the Doctor, Mrs. James. The Doctor, she said, had attended her through a fever, and asked no pay. His wife was kind, and lent her books to read. I was boarding at that time with a poor widow-woman, and one night I asked her about Rachel.
Lawyer Tonkin had gazed into her eyes when he said good-night, and she had felt his moist and pudgy hand squeeze hers; but she knew it was the eyes and hand of the widow-woman, the owner, but for Ishmael, of Cloom Manor, with which the lawyer had dallied. Her sense of her position was flattered and a glimpse of a yet more consequential one flashed before her, but no thrill went with it.
His red shaggy eyebrows were so prominent, that he habitually used them as arms and hands for the purpose of pointing out any object towards which he wished to direct attention; the rest of his features were equally striking in their way, and were all and all his own; he wore a fancy dress partly resembling the costume of Napoleon, and partly that of a widow-woman.
Now, in one of the small alleys that have their vent in the great stream of Fleet Street there dwelt an old widow-woman who eked out her existence by charing, an industrious, drudging creature, whose sole occupation, since her husband, the journeyman bricklayer, fell from a scaffold, and, breaking his neck, left her happily childless as well as penniless, had been scrubbing stone floors and cleaning out dingy houses when about to be let, charing, in a word.
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