Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: July 25, 2025
As it was, I got in before it slammed, and happily too; for just at that moment the house-cleaner, who had grown paler every instant, fell in a heap in the entry, and the policeman, who was not the man I would want about me in any trouble, seemed somewhat embarrassed by this new emergency, and let me lift the poor thing up and drag her farther into the hall.
I must admit that I do. Whenever I get talking to anyone that is, to anyone who knows even less about it than I do about the marvellous development of electricity, for instance, I feel as if I had been personally responsible for it. As for the linotype and the aeroplane and the vacuum house-cleaner, well, I am not sure that I didn't invent them myself.
"A young girl!" he repeated. What young girl? You mean old woman, do you not? the house-cleaner or some one " "No, Mr. Van Burnam, we mean what we say, though possibly I should call her a young lady. She is dressed quite fashionably." "The " Really I cannot repeat in this public manner the word which Mr. Van Burnam used.
Aunt Barbara was not an untidy house-cleaner one who tosses the whole house into chaos, and simultaneous with the china from the closet, brings up a basket of bottles from the cellar to be washed and rinsed. She took one room at a time, settling as she went along, so that her house never was in that state of dire confusion which so many houses present every fall and spring.
It was not in the girl's nature, nor in accordance with her present scheme of life, to be an idle spectator, and from her travelling-bag she soon transformed herself into as charming a house-cleaner as ever waged war against that chief enemy of life and health dirt.
"And now what have you to tell me?" he inquired, sliding softly between me and the parlor door. "Nothing but this. Question that queer-acting house-cleaner closely. She has something to tell which it is your business to know." I think he was disappointed. He looked as if he regretted the spectacles he had pocketed, and when he spoke there was an edge to his tone I had not noticed in it before.
But on the next sweeping-day I stood on a chair, craning my neck, to study the spider webs I discovered in the corners of the ceiling; and one or two webs of more than ordinary perfection I suffered to remain undisturbed for weeks, although it was my duty, as a house-cleaner, to sweep the ceiling clean.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking