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Updated: June 9, 2025
There were small grubby daffodils in it, and dirty-faced little primroses, and an arbor beside the water-butt, bare at this time of the year, but still a real arbor. And an elder-tree that in the hot weather had flat, white flowers on it big as tea-plates. And a lilac-tree with brown buds on it. Beautiful. "Say, matey, just you chuck it! Chuck it, I say!
No miniature Galatea half hewn out of the block of humanity, waiting for the chisel of a composite Pygmalion. Here was only a grubby, little unkempt child, like all other children, but not so presentable. "What's the matter with everybody?" said David with unnatural sharpness. "I want to present you to our ward, Miss Eleanor Hamlin, who has come a long way for the pleasure of meeting you.
"I can't stand this grubby, shut-in prison," she finally snapped at him, on an evening when he would not go to the first night of a roof-garden. He snarled back: "You don't have to! Why don't you go with your bloomin' Phil and Olive? Of course, I don't ever want to go myself!" "See here, my friend, you have been taking advantage for a long time now of the fact that you were ill.
"You're not a grubby little working girl to me," he said, "you're a glorious creature a wonder woman. I ought to go down on my knees to you for what you've given me in that picture." "In the picture?" Nancy said. "I love you. I love you. That wasn't in the picture I kept it out." "I won't marry him until he is ready for me," she said to herself at one time during the night.
The clouds were leaden, like the solid blue-gray lead of the spires and the jewelled windows; the sloping roofs and high-shouldered arches looked like cloaks drooping with damp; and the stiff gargoyles that stood out round the walls were scoured with old rains and new. I went into the round, deep porch with many doors and found two grubby children playing there out of the rain.
He is the darlingest child, with ash-blond hair cut Dutch style. I wonder if you didn't look like him when you were a boy, with your light hair?" "Not a chance. I was a grubby kid. Made noises.... Gee! what a bully place. And the house!... Will you marry me?" "Yes, I will!... It is a dear place. Mrs. Pat is " "When?"
But then, quite ten minutes afterward, his shadow once more fell across the kitchen floor. He had not really gone yet. Here he was back again at the kitchen door, staring reflectively at his grubby little pocketbook. "Beg pardon but did I mention the side o' bacon I've been promised for Tuesday. It's good bacon."
"Cold-blooded word," and Alaric shuddered. "What will you do, Ethel?" "Work." "At what?" "Teach." "TEACH? Who in the wide world can YOU teach?" "Children." Alaric laughed mirthlessly. "Oh, come, that's rich! Eh, mater? Fancy Ethel teachin' grubby little brats their A B C's! Tush!" "Must!" said Ethel, quite unmoved. "A CHICHESTER TEACH?" said Alaric, in disgust.
As for Bob, as he rowed he was constantly uttering derisive and defiant remarks; but all the same his grubby face was rather ashy, and he too grew tremendously hot as he worked away at his scull for quite an hour, during which time they had not seen anything more formidable than half a dozen red oxen standing knee-deep in the water, and swinging their tails to and fro to drive away the tormenting flies.
Yet the woman was ordinary enough the type of landlady one sees in all back streets greasy face, straggling hair, dirty blouse, black hands, bitten fingernails, short skirts, prodigious feet, a grubby child clinging on to her dress and every indication of the speedy arrival of another.
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