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He asked her many times if she wouldn't come into town and lunch, or have tea, and they would go home together; but she explained convincingly if mysteriously: "You see, dear, this first day, I'll have to get straight," and he went off alone. Marie fell to work in the greatest spirits. She was armoured with the rubber gloves and the housemaid's gloves and a chic pinafore. As she worked she sang.
They use it a good deal in spring-cleaning. It's like glue and decayed fish. House is full of it. It hurts. Horribly. Damnably. I'm glad you've come, Jingle. I was to have had lunch in the housemaid's cupboard. But Mabel is an excellent housekeeper. Thorough. "Tried to cheer him up. Told him it would soon be over. And Summer would come. "'Ah, he said, 'but if Summer don't!
They was a lot o' Willie boys an' young bloods lookin' for adventure, an' me an' Bull McGinty was just the lads to give it to 'em in bucketfuls. The little nosy reporter with the hair was fair crazy to come, but McGinty gets a jackleg doctor to examine him an' swear that he's sufferin' from spatulation o' the medulla oblongata, housemaid's knee, and the hives.
Dam did not mind, though he did not enjoy, doing housemaid's work in the barrack-room, scrubbing floors, blackleading iron table-legs and grates, sweeping, dusting, and certain other more unpleasant menial tasks; he did not mind, though he did not like, "mucking-out" stables and scavenging; he could take at their proper value the insults of ignorant boors set in authority over him; he could stand, if not enjoy, the hardships of the soldier's life but he did not see why his doing his duty in that particular sphere an arduous, difficult, and frequently dangerous sphere should earn him the united insult of the united public!
I never ask people to call me Helena, unless I like them. I certainly never expected there, I'll be frank! that I should want to ask you the very first night too. But I do want you to. Please, Lucy, call me Helena. Please!" Mrs. Friend did as she was told. "Sleep well," said Helena from the door. "I hope the housemaid's put enough on your bed, and given you a hot water-bottle?
It happened that the old gentleman was then suffering from gout, hay-fever and housemaid's knee. And he liked to talk about his ailments. Living all alone as he did, he had nobody to do his housework. And that, he complained, was the reason why his knee troubled him. Jasper Jay fidgeted about while Mr. Crow was telling him all that and much more concerning his troubles.
The feet trod with a. harsh sound on one or two fragments of broken glass which had escaped the housemaid's broom. A yearning ache filled him as the girl came nearer, for he saw that her eyes were blind with tears. There was no distortion of the features, save that the small mouth quivered; and the shining drops brimmed over heavily and silently.
Oh, sir, I can't believe he's really gone so sudden like." "Then you saw the lady with him?" "Yes, of course. Oh " "Hush! What was she like?" The housemaid's nose curled derisively. "Oh, sir, quite the usual sort. Oh, a very common person. Not at all like the poor gentleman, sir." "Young?" "Not to say old, sir. No; I couldn't bring that against her.
I am glad they can't read them, or they would have all at once, as J.K. Jerome, the witty playwright, decided he had every disease found in a medical dictionary, except housemaid's knee. Look at this condensed list: DISEASES OF NERVOUS SYSTEM. 1. Apoplexy. 2. Paralysis. 3. Vertigo. 4. Neuralgia. 5. Debility. Rheumatism. 2. Cramp. 3. Gout. 4. Leg weakness. 5. Paralysis of legs. 6. Elephantiasis.
Garth knew there was a class of people whose preliminary step to marriage was called "keeping company," a stage above the housemaid's "walking out," both expressions being exactly descriptive of the circumstances of the case; for, whereas pretty Phyllis and her swain go walking out of an evening in byways and between hedges, or along pavements and into the parks, these keep each other company in the parlours and arbours of their respective friends and relations.
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