chair-in

Updated: June 21, 2025

Of the pleasures of house-cleaning, I had at length a surfeit; when a ring, which I knew among all others, surprised me. I looked at the clock. It was past four, and the kitchen still in confusion, and the hearth cold. I sank in a chair-in a swoon from sheer exhaustion.

T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur - Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper