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Three heaped-up baskets and a full dish-pan were the result; and as she had snipped and cut and sorted, one of her sentimental projects had entered her mind and taken complete possession there.
Think of me, a woman my age, doing such a thing!" Taking up the dish-pan, she left the kitchen to empty the water. Hester dried her tears. Her heart grew light. She understood Aunt Debby well and she knew that the talk about letting the work stand was only a chastisement Debby was giving herself, when she felt herself yielding. The subject was again discussed during the evening.
Good God! as if she knew!" Hephzibah was on her feet now, her hands to her head. "An Angelus? me?" continued the woman scornfully. "And where? The dish-pan? the wash-tub? the chicken-yard? A fine Angelus, that! And yet" Hephzibah dropped to her knees again "you look so quiet, so peaceful, and, oh, so rested!" "For the land's sake, Hetty, what be you doin'? Have you gone clean crazy?"
Moss, as the last mouthful vanished, and Sancho licked his lips over the savory scraps that fell to his share. Ben fell to chopping so vigorously that chips flew wildly all about the shed; Bab rattled the cups into her dish-pan with dangerous haste, and Betty raised a cloud of dust "sweeping-up;" while mother seemed to be everywhere at once.
On the table in the middle of the room, "Momma" had placed an enormous tin dish-pan piled high with dirty dishes, over which she was pouring the contents of the kettle. Steam rose in clouds, half-veiling her big, fierce face which, seen through holes in the vapor, was like that of a handsome, vulgar witch. Through the steam she shot at Sheila a cruel look.
A narrow wooden bedstead, as battered and crippled as Little Lottie, but without the latter's air of sympathy and companionship; a tremulous kitchen table; a long box set on end and curtained off with a bit of faded calico, a single chair with a mended leg these rude conveniences comprised my total list of housekeeping effects, not forgetting, of course, the dish-pan, the stubby broom, and the coal-scuttle, along with the scanty assortment of thick, chipped dishes and the pots and pans on the shelf behind the calico curtain.
The average Italian house has a damp and chill in Winter which clutches the tourist and makes him long for home and native land. Imagine a New England farmhouse in March with only a small dish-pan of coals to warm it, and you have Rome in Winter. Rome, with its fever in Summer and rheumatism and pneumonia in Winter, has sent many an artist to limbus.
At the challenge Ethan turned back into the room and faced her. "I can tell you, then. The cat done it." "The cat?" "That's what I said." She looked at him hard, and then turned her eyes to Mattie, who was carrying the dish-pan to the table. "I'd like to know how the cat got into my china-closet" she said. "Chasin' mice, I guess," Ethan rejoined.
A life without a dish-pan misses a good disciplinarian, and, sometimes, a teacher of patience; it's like pots and kettles unpleasant but necessary, so the sooner we take hold, when we have it to handle, and the better the grace with which we handle it, just so much have we brought our rebellious likes and dislikes under control, and made the best of our duty.
"Well, I'm glad he's got home, anyway," she remarked, aloud, to herself as she hung her dish-cloth tidily over the upturned dish-pan and took up her broom. "I 'ain't felt noways easy 'bout her sence she left, though I do suppose there ain't any sense to it. But I'm glad he's back!"
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