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Auntie, the good black cook, washed the dresses generally, though Hildegarde could do that, too, if she was "put to it;" but Hildegarde liked the ironing, and took as much pride or nearly as much in her own hems and ruffles as she did in the delicate laces which she "did up" for her mother.
"What do you mean whose funeral?" demanded Kate, looking at him suddenly. "Abe Hawk's. It's goin' t' be t'morrow er next day." If the old man had meant to stupefy his questioner, he could not better have succeeded. Kate turned deathly white. She bent over the table and busied herself with her ironing. Bradley, pleased with his confidence safely made, talked on.
For the employment of prisoners she recommends such occupations as patchwork, knitting stockings, making articles of plain needlework, washing, ironing, housework, cooking, spinning, and weaving. It should in all cases be constant, and in the worst cases, disciplinary labor.
"Come, Herbert," he said; "let us go to the help of this poor woman." "With all my heart," answered Herbert, his eyes flashing. Before describing the appearance of Herbert and George Melville upon the scene, I will go back a few minutes and relate what happened at the farmhouse. Mrs. Cole was engaged in ironing when she heard a knock at the door.
At last she could bear his nervous way no longer, it made her equally nervous and fidgety. She would speak. "When are you going, father? I don't know the time o' the trains." "And why shouldst thou know?" replied he gruffly. "Meddle with thy ironing, but donnot be asking questions about what doesn't concern thee." "I wanted to get you something to eat first," answered she gently.
By the time the baby was dressed, coated, and hooded, and little Diego buttoned into gaiters and reefer, and Anne herself had changed her house gown for street wear, and pinned on her hat and veil, and Helma, summoned from her ironing, had bumped Virginia's coach down the back porch steps, and around the wet garden path to the front door, by the time all this was accomplished, the short winter daylight would be almost gone, she knew, and the crowded hour that began with the children's baths, and that ended their little day with bread-and-milky kisses to Daddy when he came in, and prayers, and cribs, would have arrived.
Particular means of ventilating rooms. Caution in regard to lamps. Washing, ironing, cooking, &c., in a nursery. Their evil tendency. Fumigation camphor, vinegar. General principles 1. To cover us; 2. To defend us from cold; 3. from injury. Swathing the Body. Buffon's remarks. Transforming children into mummies. Use of a belly-band. Evils produced by having it too tight. Cripples sometimes made.
The anger of such a man had indeed some element in it of the divine; terrible, not in volume, but in righteous intensity. And when it had passed there was no occasion for future warning. The memory of it lingered. What quality was it in Honora that compelled Bridget to stop her ironing on Tuesdays in order to make hot waffles for a young woman who was late to breakfast?
The brassworks was hard—one sat, but the foot exercise was wearying and the seat fearfully uncomfortable. Ironing was hardest—one stood all day and used the feet for hard pressure besides. Yet I was sorry to leave the laundry! Perhaps it was just as well for me that Lucia could not talk English. She might have used it on me, and already the left ear was talked off by Irma.
'Why, Nanny has been busy ironing this evening; but I think I'll take him to her now. And Mrs. Barton glided towards the kitchen, while her husband ran up-stairs to put on his maize-coloured dressing-gown, in which costume he was quietly filling his long pipe when his wife returned to the sitting-room.
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