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The sight of the self-conscious woman who, in her wonderful beauty, stood leaning with folded arms on the ironing-table stirred his heart and senses too strongly. Standing motionless, he strove for words, while his eyes revealed plainly enough the passionate rapture which agitated his soul.
Clemence, leaning heavily over the ironing-table, her wrists bent in, her elbows sticking out and wide apart was bending her neck in a last effort; and all her muscles swelled, her shoulders rose with the slow play of the muscles beating beneath the soft skin, her breasts heaved, wet with perspiration in the rosy shadow of the half open chemise.
The sight of the self-conscious woman who, in her wonderful beauty, stood leaning with folded arms on the ironing-table stirred his heart and senses too strongly. Standing motionless, he strove for words, while his eyes revealed plainly enough the passionate rapture which agitated his soul.
On the following evening they worked on either side of the ironing-table, the candle burning brightly and their vague woman's chatter sounding pleasant in the hush of the little cottage. A little after nine they were in bed, and so the days went softly, like happy, trivial dreams. It was not till the end of the third week that Mrs. Lewis would hear of Esther looking out for another place.
The doors open out into a "well," or recess, excavated in the earth before the cellar, for the admission of light and air, neatly bricked up and whitewashed. The doors are to be made entirely of strong, thick glass sashes, and this will give light enough for laundry work; the tubs and ironing-table being placed close to the glazed door.
She went out, guiding her husband's footsteps, and helped him climb upon the mustang from the height of the narrow porch. Then, taking the horse by the bridle, she moved away down the slope to the road. Fong Wu did not follow, but closed the door gently and went back to the ironing-table. A handkerchief lay beside it a dainty linen square that she had left.
I persisted that the laws of symmetrical propriety required that the rudder should remain where it was that the very name of our home would be interfered with by its removal, but he insisted that "Ironing-table Grange" would be just as good a name, and that symmetrical propriety in such a case did not amount to a row of pins.
She came forward a little farther, and sucked in a long, deep breath. "You dog of a Chinaman!" she said at last, and struck her riding-skirt. Fong Wu answered silently. With an imperative gesture, he pointed out the figure on the ironing-table. She sprang to her husband's side and bent over him. Presently she began to murmur to herself.
Emily's colour and spirits came back; her earnings made all the difference to the family between penury and ease; while she and her little sister kept the three tiny rooms in which they lived, and waited on their invalid mother, with exquisite cleanliness and care. Marcella stood by the ironing-table a moment after the girl's speech.
The washing almost does itself. The tubs are of soapstone, at the opposite side of the room from the ironing-table. Over the entire stove she might have had a range, but didn't want one there's a sort of movable cover with a flue running into the chimney that carries off every breath of steam and smoke from the cooking. One would never guess at the dinner by any stray odors.
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