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Updated: June 17, 2025
Pearl looked at herself critically in the glass: "These things should not count," she said, as she fastened a thin veil over her face and made it very neat at the back with a hairpin, "but they do." The Purple Springs district was going through a period of intense excitement. Housework languished, dough ran over, dish-water cooled.
A few days out from here and we were again mustered as before to show our tickets, which were carefully examined. It seemed strange to me that the water was the poorest fare we had. It was sickish tasting stuff, and so warm it would do very well for dish-water. There were many interesting things to see.
Taking her hands from her dish-water, she dried them hastily, went over to Mrs. Wackernagel, threw her arms about her neck, and kissed her. "Oh, Aunty Em, I love you like I've never loved any one except Miss Margaret and " She stopped short as she buried her face in her aunt's motherly bosom and clung to her. "And who else, Tillie?" Mrs.
"How come he c'n talk like that?" she demanded of herself, musing on the lodger's wonderful exhibition over the greasy dish-water at Maverick's. And that night she asked him, prefacing her question with the offering of an almost perfect lamb-chop.
"The gutter the gutter is where the dish-water goes, midget," he answered with a dry laugh. "Oh, I don't think you'd like to be in the gutter," Nancy said solemnly. "You have to get used to it first, miss," answered Jim. Suddenly Sally laid both hands on Jim's shoulders and looked him in the eyes. "You must win the stake Jim. Think now!" She laid a hand on the head of the child.
"Perfectly explained, and as clear as bilge-water. Sir George, has Mr. Dodge mentioned to you the manner in which these Arabs enjoy life? The gentlemen, by way of saving; dish-water, eat half-a-dozen at a time out of the same plate. Quite republican, and altogether without pride, Mr. Dodge, in their notions!"
He had customers who were worth their thousands; ladies whose fingers never touched dish-water; ladies who would n't buy a glove of anybody else if they went bare-handed to the grave. He lived with his sister Maude Arthurlena in a house where there were twenty-two other boarders who could be seated at meals all at the same time, so immense was the dining-room.
Tom Poppins did not fail to bellow "Bring on the dish-water," nor Miss Mary Proudfoot to cheep demurely "Don't y' knaow" in a tone which would have been recognized as fascinatingly English anywhere on the American stage.
Ayres kept no maid. She had barely enough income to support herself and her daughter. She came to the door herself. She was a small, delicate, pretty woman, and her little thin hands were red with dish-water. "Good-morning," she said, in a weary, gentle fashion. "Come in, Mrs. Whitman, won't you?" As she spoke she wrinkled her forehead between her curves of gray hair.
"Why, they're no such thing, Maxine Pardee! They're from all over the world, pretty nearly. Why, just last Thursday they were counting there were sixteen different states represented in the eighteen people that sat down to dinner." "Pooh! States! That isn't the world." "What is, then?" Maxine threw out her arms, sprinkling dish-water from her dripping finger tips with the wide-flung gesture.
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