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She went down to Croft's pretty nearly every day when his cousin Maria from Bridgton come to house-clean. Maria suspicioned something, I guess. Anyhow, she asked me if Miss Butterfield's two hundred a year was in gov'ment bonds.
"It's a shame!" he said, warmly. "I wish I could stay and help you. But I tell you what I'll do. I'll be up the minute I get out of the office. Leave the heavy things for me to do. And don't try to house-clean the whole flat just because of Mrs. Dorothy Chase. She isn't worth it." He was as good as his word.
"There!" she exclaimed, with a sigh of satisfaction, "I've polished the stove and scrubbed the floor, an' put up five quarts o' pickled pears, an' to-morrow I'm goin' to house-clean the front part. Arabella always kept things kind of in order, but she was never anything of a manager.
Garry listened in amazement. "Kenny," he said slowly, "you've roamed off before and gotten yourself into some extraordinary messes and I honestly thought that summer in China had taught you a lesson. But this tale of Adam Craig and the miser money is the king-pin of them all. You've absolutely got to house-clean that instinct for melodrama out of existence.
I'll get the bedroom so's you can sleep in it to-night just a lick an' a promise; an' to-morrow I'll house-clean 'em both thorough, if 't is the Sabbath the 'better the day, the better the deed, I've heard some say, an' I believe that's true, don't you, Mrs. Cary?" She bustled ahead, pulling up the shades, and flinging open the windows in the unused rooms. "My, but the dust is thick!
She went down to Croft's pretty nearly every day when his cousin from Bridgton come to house-clean. She suspicioned something, I guess. Anyhow, she asked me if Miss Butterfield's two hundred a year was in gov'ment bonds.
Cathy was smart enough to watch where he was looking. She was busy tossing stuff out of the bottom drawer of an old chest of drawers. "What do you think you're doing?" Jerry asked her. "Mummy's going to house-clean up here Monday. I'm helping by clearing out drawers." "You mean you're snooping around to see what you can find." Cathy stopped pawing in the drawer.
Gray had to "house-clean" her parlor a month earlier than she had intended, because she had so many callers who came hoping to catch a glimpse of Mrs. Cary, and hear all about her, besides; but they did not see her at all, and Mrs. Gray could tell them but little. "She ain't a mite of trouble," the good woman declared to every one, "an' the simplest, gentlest creature I ever see in my life.
But you can't get every city in the country doing this until the men and women of influence, the mothers and fathers are so worked up over the rottenness of it all that they want to house-clean their own surroundings." "One thing that should be done in New York and other towns is to put the name of the owner of every building on a little tablet by the door.
He stooped to her, according to the little ceremony she had established, and she made little dabs at his speckless back. "There, that's better." He straightened. "How do you think Uncle David is?" he asked, unexpectedly. "Better than he has been in years. Why?" "Because I'm thinking of taking a little trip. Only ten days," he added, seeing her face. "You could house-clean my office while I'm away.
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