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So Martha sat by the tub as by a bedside, and Miss Joy with a sigh of comfort lay at length in the hot water and they talked. "Is he up there all alone?" "He is now. The housework was too heavy for one old woman. He sent me to New York to find a helper.
He is decorated; but it seems he has had misfortunes, for he never wears his ribbon. They formerly had a servant from the provinces, but they sent him away about three years ago; and now the young son of the lady does everything, housework and all." Godefroid made a gesture. "Oh!" cried the Portress, "don't you be afraid; they won't say anything to you; they never speak to any one.
There are great tanks where they are all bathed twice a week. They have a fine infant school for the little ones, most admirably managed. The large girls are taught to wash, and iron, and do housework. The boys are, some of them, taught the tailor's trade, and some the shoemaker's, and others the baker's.
Aunt Mavity can have some help in the house there's always a girl or two breaking down in the mills, who would be glad to have a chance at housework for a while." Now Pros looked all about him, and seemed in no haste to begin, though Gray knew well there was something on his mind. Finally Stoddard observed, smiling: "You're the very man I wanted to see, Uncle Pros.
Furthermore the non-domestic type, the woman with especial ability, the woman who has been courted, petted, and sought for before marriage is the one who reacts most to the monotony of the home. There are plenty of women who consider the home a refuge from a world they find more strenuous, more fatiguing than they can stand, or who find in housework a consecration to their ordained duty.
At one end of the porch is a very cosy arrangement of hand-wrought chairs and a commodious swinging seat. The other end, just off the parental bed-chamber, has been converted into an out-door sleeping-room for John C. Percival. The Governor's lady has no nursemaid. She does her own housework, her own washing and ironing, and she takes care of her own baby.
Well, on this particular evening, she was, as we have said, taking her share in the housework by reading "Jane Austen" aloud to Dot and Mat; when the door suddenly opened, and James Mesurier stood there, a little aloof, for it was seldom he entered this room, which perhaps had for him a certain painful association of his son's rebellion.
If you passed through the corridor and saw in the shadow of the wall that homeliest of instruments cast away and forgotten, you would smile at the slatternly housework.
Home, to find dear Betty very ill with scarlet-fever caught from some poor children mother nursed when they fell sick, living over a cellar where pigs had been kept. Too late to save two of the poor babies or Lizzie and May from the fever. An anxious time, I nursed, did housework, and wrote a story a month through the summer. Dr. Bellows and Father had Sunday eve conversations. October.
She gets excited and hollers at me because I can't get interested in sewing clubs and housework." "It's because you've got it too good that you're not satisfied. That Flora Kemble, that never has a decent thing to wear, gets engaged to a " "Now, Carrie, that's no way to talk." "Mamma always makes me feel uncomfortable because I'm not married yet." "Now do you believe what I go through with, Ben?"
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