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It is of no use to carry clothes-poles and drying-lines where there are no conveniences for washing and drying. Next comes a travelling umbrella-mender, fagoted on the back like the man in the moon of the nursery rhyme-book.
Miss Theodosia rose to the occasion gallantly indeed, exultantly. Thrills of enthusiasm ran up, ran down her spine. She prepared for a night of it. The dresses immersed in steaming hot water and her supper eaten, she stretched drying-lines, with considerable difficulty, from corner to corner of her kitchen, prepared an ironing-board, and got out long-idle irons.
The clouds of white dust that blew up the street, the gusts of hot wind that withered his vegetable garden, never disturbed his calm. His droll expression seemed to say that he had found the secret of contentment. Morning and evening he drove about in his spring wagon, distributing freshly ironed clothes, and collecting bags of linen that cried out for his suds and sunny drying-lines.
The clouds of white dust that blew up the street, the gusts of hot wind that withered his vegetable garden, never disturbed his calm. His droll expression seemed to say that he had found the secret of contentment. Morning and evening he drove about in his spring wagon, distributing freshly ironed clothes, and collecting bags of linen that cried out for his suds and sunny drying-lines.
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