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Updated: June 27, 2025
"Thee likes housework I think," said Mrs. Sterling, as she watched her hang up a towel to dry, and rinse her dish-cloth when the cleaning up was done. "Oh, yes! if I need not do it with a shiftless Irish girl to drive me distracted by pretending to help. I have lived out, and did not find it hard while I had my good Hepsey. I was second girl, and can set a table in style.
Her manner was as frank and unconstrained as though I had not been shunning her for weeks past. "If such a thing is possible," I replied. "Do you know a dish-cloth when you see one?" I was doubtful. But I procured the cloth from Miss Trevor and returned. There was an air about Miss Thorn that was new to me. "What an uncompromising man you are, Mr. Crocker," she said to me.
And she proceeded to wrap her tiny self in the long, wide apron. "Not that pan, child!" exclaimed her mother "That's a milk-pan." "O," said Sadie, "I thought it was pretty shiny. My! what a great pan. Don't you come near me, Birdie, or you'll tumble in and drown yourself before I could fish you out with the dish-cloth. Where is that article?
The scorched marks on the white enamelled saucepans had to be rubbed well with sapolio, and a nice dish-cloth was found hanging up over the sink for the purpose.
When he grew up he was always dressed in pink and blue, and he had sad dark eyes and a little, close, tidy beard like Uncle Victor. You could love Jesus. Jenny loved him. She was a Wesleyan; and her niece Catty was a Wesleyan. Catty marched round and round the kitchen table with the dish-cloth, drying the plates and singing: "'I love Jesus, yes, I do, For the Bible tells me to!" and
However, prejudice is stronger than truth; and, as I said, every fragment of every fabric that could not give an account of itself was charged with being a nightcap till it was proved to be a dish-cloth or a cart-rope.
"Is your own shadow not enough for you? What a strange bargain!" "No price is too high for this invaluable shadow. I have many a precious thing in my pocket, which you may choose a mandrake, the dish-cloth of Roland's page, Fortunati's purse " "What! Fortunati's purse?"
Moss, with her dish-cloth suspended, watched the antics of her crockery with a housewife's anxiety.
I'm not complaining of your work; I know it's perfection," said Madame Goujet. "For instance, you've done this cap splendidly, only you could bring out the embroidery like that. And the flutings are all so even. Oh! I recognize your hand at once. When you give even a dish-cloth to one of your workwomen I detect it at once. In future, use a little less starch, that's all!
"You set him on, you little saucy vixen! I saw it in your eyes. Let the rascal be scourged." "Not so," said Dennet, with prim mouth and laughing eyes. "Far be it from me! But 'tis ever the wont of the kitchen, when those come there who have no call thither." Mistress Headley flounced away, dish-cloth and all, to go whimpering to the alderman with her tale of insults.
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