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Updated: June 19, 2025
You cannot want justice, mistress, for you have the means to get it." "They who help me in my revenge," said Martha, "shall share those means." "Enough said," replied Hildebrod; "and now I would have you go to my house, and get something hot you will be but dreary here by yourself." "I will send for the old char-woman," replied Martha, "and we have the stranger gentleman, besides."
How could he be satisfied with such an existence? With the bad cooking, and the careless, untidy ways of a char-woman, and with the shabby clothes, that were discolored by use!
I promised mother I wouldn't go away till father comes home. Don't be angry, please. 'I'm not angry, child, continued Mrs Blossom. 'I only want a little maid to come mornings, and go away nights, like a char-woman. 'Mother used to go charing sometimes, remarked Meg.
I found on inquiring of the janitor, that the dressy person I had met, was the char-woman in street attire, and that a closet was set aside in the building, for the special purpose of her morning and evening transformations, which she underwent in the belief that her social position in Avenue A would suffer, should she appear in the streets wearing anything less costly than seal-skin and velvet or such imitations of those expensive materials as her stipend would permit.
The char-woman came down stairs majestically, in a long, loose wrapper, fanning herself with a palm-leaf fan, but when she saw the child, her majesty dropped from her like a cloak, and she ran toward her and caught the baby up in her arms. "You poor little thing," she murmured, "and, oh, how beautiful!"
Lily, to whom the name conveyed nothing, opened the door upon a woman in a battered bonnet, who stood firmly planted under the hall-light. The glare of the unshaded gas shone familiarly on her pock-marked face and the reddish baldness visible through thin strands of straw-coloured hair. Lily looked at the char-woman in surprise. "Do you wish to see me?" she asked.
The char-woman, after the manner of her kind, stood with her arms folded in her shawl. Unwinding the latter, she produced a small parcel wrapped in dirty newspaper. "I have something here that you might like to see, Miss Bart." She spoke the name with an unpleasant emphasis, as though her knowing it made a part of her reason for being there. To Lily the intonation sounded like a threat.
The char-woman, with brow darkened by soot and gloom, told him that Milly was upstairs, but that her mother had gone across to her own house with the clothes-brush. Moses's face fell. When his wife was alive, she had been a link of connection between "The Family" and himself, her cousin having generously employed her as a char-woman. So Moses knew the import of the clothes-brush.
Master Grahame will kindle his own fire, or wait till the char-woman comes to do it for him, just as likes him best." "No, child no, child. Child Martha, no," reiterated the old miser "no char-woman shall ever touch a grate in my house; they put ugh, ugh the faggot uppermost, and so the coal kindles not, and the flame goes up the chimney, and wood and heat are both thrown away.
He hastened his steps and he would have run if he had not been ashamed to betray his fears to the char-woman. "I'm afraid someone has been into the studio last night. The hasp was off the door when I came this morning. Some of the things are broken." Rodney heard no more. He stood on the threshold looking round the wrecked studio.
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