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"An' then Eb sort o' swep' us all up in the dust-pan. "'No more words about it, s'he, 'an' I don't care what any one o' you says Mis' Cally nor none o' you. So you might just as well say less. Tell 'em, Elspie! "She looked up at him, smilin' a little, an' he turned toward her, like we wasn't there.
"Susan," said he, as that estimable person went by the door with the dust-pan, "you may tell Catherine to come to me for orders about the house, and you may do so yourself. I am going to take charge again, as I did before I was married. It is no trouble to me, and Mrs. Wilson dislikes it. Besides, she is going into business, and will have a great deal else to think of."
She had just turned out the parlour chairs into the lobby, and was busy with broom and dust-pan, sweeping up invisible dust, when Ebenezer brought her Mr. Goldthwaite's letter. So much did it upset her, that he had to depart without his glass of cider, for she took no more notice of him than if he had been one of the pillars at the door.
"If yo' chillun ain't gone an' mussed up de floah ag'in!" "Bert broke my boiler!" said Freddie, and began to cry. "Oh, never mind, Freddie, there are plenty of others in the cellar," declared Nan. "It was an accident, Dinah," she added, to the cook. "Eberyt'ing in dis house wot happens is an accident," grumbled the cook, and went off to get the dust-pan and broom.
In such streets as we passed through, and I dare say they were not the best, the broom and the brush and the dust-pan strive in vain against the dirt that seems to rise out of the ground and fall from the clouds.
Now I was really excited. What was coming next? He came back at once with a happy smile all over his face, and the dust-pan full of coal! If I had been curious before, I was now anxious. I withdrew as far as possible from the range, sat down on the floor itself, and fixed my eyes on the thermograph. As I thought, the pen began to move upward with rapid steps. This was too bad.
Now I must go and study Bassanio," and Bob departed murmuring, "'What find I here? Fair Portia's counterfeit?" in tones so amorous that Belden House Annie, who was sweeping on the stairs, dropped her dust-pan with a clatter, declaring that she was "jist overcome, that she was!" "Which was the only compliment my acting of Bassanio ever got," Bob told her sadly afterward.
"Did you mean to give me this?" asked a little girl, in whose hands Cecil had thrust her dust-pan, without a glance at it. "Oh the ring!" said Anne. "You must keep that, Mrs. Poynsett thought you would like it. It is a gem some Greek goddess, I think." "Is this her arrangement?" asked Cecil, pointing to the dust-pan.
"Cecil? Have I seen her since? No, I remember now. But is she angry? Was it the dust-pan? Oh! Tom, Tom!" "That and the Blockhead. Did Tom say anything very cutting?" "Why it was an old stock charade they acted two years ago! I had better tell her so." "If you would it would be an immense relief, my dear. Raymond is very much annoyed; she says she will speak to nobody till she has had an apology."
I had leisure to observe the apartment the neatly-scrubbed floor, with one narrow cot bed against the wall, a tall bureau on which some brown old books were lying, and the little dust-pan and dust-brush on a brass nail in the corner. There was a brightly polished stove with no fire in it, and some straight-backed chairs of yellow wood stood round the room.
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