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Updated: June 20, 2025
Large houses and spacious grounds indicated a district of some wealth. To one of these houses, brilliantly lighted, Baker directed his steps. "But I don't know these people, and I'm not properly dressed," objected Bob. "They know me. And as for dress, if you'd arrange to wear a chaste feather duster only, you'd make a hit." A roomful of people were buzzing like a hive.
As for a woman knowing how to cook, that seems the very last accomplishment they acquire; a girl will come to you as a housemaid at 25 pounds per annum, and you will find that she literally does not know how to hold her broom, and has never handled a duster.
"Eliza told me she could dust the room." "Eliza!" said Mrs. Rainham. "Why, it's her silver day; she had no business to tell you anything of the sort and neither had you, to ask her to do it. Goodness knows it's hard enough to make the lazy thing do her own work. Just get your duster, and make sure as you come down that the children are properly dressed for the dancing class."
Give me those briars, child, and don't lumber the room with such messes." Before Antonia could utter a word of remonstrance, Jane had whipped her duster round the briars and had rushed out of the room with them.
Red Gilbat gathered up the tails of his duster, after the manner of a neat woman crossing a muddy street, and ambled down to first base and on to second, making prodigious jumps upon the bags, and round third, to come down the home-stretch wagging his red head.
Meg came out from the nursery with two pairs of small slippers in her hand: "Where are my children? I left little Fay with Earley while I finished the overalls; he's a most efficient under-nurse I suppose you left Tony with him too. Such a lot of letters for you. Did you get your mail? I heard from both the boys. Ah, sensible Earley's taking them round to the back door. Where's William's duster?
"And I tell you it don't look well for a good-looking young married woman to go round fighting against her husband for a handsome young bachelor like Manning. So there!" Pen and Jane withdrew with as much dignity as they could muster. It was the sixth rebuff they had received that day. Pen was almost in tears. "Jane, what are we to do?" Jane fastened up her linen duster firmly.
His coat, so far as could be seen under his thin summer duster was of fine bluish cloth, short of waist, long of skirt, and the duster notwithstanding plentifully besprinkled and travel-stained with dust. The waistcoat, which seemed to be of the same material as the coat, was very open-breasted, and displayed a considerable array of shirt front.
While he was lecturing he would use his old cloak and the sleeves of his cassock as if it were a duster to wipe up anything; and his skull-cap, lined with cotton wool to protect him from neuralgia, formed a very ugly border round his head. With all that he was full of passion and eloquence, somewhat sarcastic at times, but witty and incisive.
Bell flushed as red as the reddest cabbage rose, and with downcast eyes wiped the counter briskly with a duster. 'Why should you come here to ask for Mr Pendle? said she, in guarded tones. 'I called at his lodgings, Miss Mosk, and I was informed that he was visiting a sick person here. 'My mother! replied Bell, not knowing what an amazing lie the chaplain was telling. 'Yes!
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