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"But if it's so bad as that why doesn't she go home she must have a home." "Oh, she has but to go back, she feels, would mean that she's given up, and the char-woman declares that she'll never give up so long as she's alive." "Well, she's a precious little fool," observed Trent, as he drank an extra glass of claret.
She was to keep it as still as possible, and on no account to try to use it. "So you see, Betty," said Miss Unity earnestly, "the importance of having someone to help you in your work." "Yes, Miss," said Betty, with suspicion in every feature, and quite prepared to object to any person her mistress had secured. "And I have made up my mind," went on Miss Unity, "not to have a char-woman."
It has been fairly earned! Give the ghost his shroud, Gardener, and let him go; and recommend him not to haunt Yew-lane in future." John did so, with a few words of parting advice on his own account. "Be hoff with you," he said. "Master Lindsay, he speaks like a book. You're a disgrace to your hage and sect, you are! I'd as soon fight with an old char-woman.
Lord Glenvarloch then applied to old Deborah the char-woman, by whose intermediation he was provided with a tolerably decent dinner; and the only embarrassment which he experienced, was from the almost forcible entry of the old dotard his landlord, who insisted upon giving his assistance at laying the cloth.
Moses had welcomed this every-day scene, for it put off a few moments his encounter with the formidable Malka. As she had not appeared at door or window, he concluded she was in a bad temper or out of London; neither alternative was pleasant. He knocked at the door of Milly's house where her mother was generally to be found, and an elderly char-woman opened it.
She emphasized the last words, and, more angry than before, Neil exclaimed: "Earn it! Why will you persist in such nonsense, as if you were a common char-woman? You know as well as I that you are going to Aunt Betsey with the hope to get some of her money, as you unquestionably will." "Neil, I am not," Bessie answered, firmly.
"I don't want no strangers, Miss," said Betty with a darkening face, "they break more than they make. I can make shift, I daresay, with my left hand." "Now you know that's quite out of the question, Betty," said her mistress, doing her best to speak severely, "you couldn't lift a saucepan, or even make a bed. You must certainly have someone. Some nice respectable char-woman."
As I explained at the commencement, it was told to me by Ethelbertha, who had it from Amenda, who got it from the char-woman, and exaggerations may have crept into it. The following, however, were incidents that came under my own personal observation.
"I couldn't sleep last night for thinking of that poor Christina Coles," she said, "the char-woman told me yesterday that the child had been obliged to go out and pawn some of her things in order to get the money to pay her room rent." With a start his mind swung back from the dream life to the actual.
"Good bye, then and good luck at Bellomont!" he said, opening the door for her. On the landing she paused to look about her. There were a thousand chances to one against her meeting anybody, but one could never tell, and she always paid for her rare indiscretions by a violent reaction of prudence. There was no one in sight, however, but a char-woman who was scrubbing the stairs.
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