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While some of the women went out into the fields, to gather the samples ordered by the doctor, and others were ironing out her damp clothes in the lower room, I left the house to wander alone among the ruins of the old Abbey. But my heart was too full of its own emotions to feel interested in the anchorites of the Abbey.
But I'd had my week's mending to do, and what was left of the ironing to get through and Whinnie's work-pants to veneer with a generous new patch, and thirteen missing buttons to restore to the kiddies' different garments. My back ached, my finger-bones were tired, and there was a jumpy little nerve in my left temple going for all the world like a telegraph-key. And then I gave up.
"Then 'tis '6 spoons smaller ditto metal. Then, 'ironing stove; 5 irons; washing boiler; 4 fry pans; 2 chimney crooks; 6 saucepans; pestle and mortar; chimney ornaments; 4 coloured almanacs one with picture of the Queen " "They won't fetch nothin'." "They might.
"In the ironing of collars and cuffs by machinery, there is continual risk of burns on hands and arms. At a sleeve-ironing machine, in another place I received some slight burn every day. And when I asked the girls if this were because I was 'green, they replied that every one got burned at that machine all the time.
Not many calls were needful to bring a flock to share the feast, with cries of joy; but Marilda was not yet satisfied. 'Where's the other of you? she said to Alda. 'I don't know you well apart yet. 'Wilmet's in the kitchen, thrust in Lancelot, 'ironing the collars for Sunday. 'Lance! uttered Alda indignantly. 'Oh! what fun I do let me go down and see! I should so like to iron.
"I'm just ironing Mr. Holland's shirt," objected Maggie. "Well, I don't care if Mr. Holland never has another shirt ironed. I want you to go to the spring for water and fill the table-pitchers, and do a dozen other things." The tall clock in the dining-room struck five, and the dining-bell pealed out its prompt summons through the house.
"And now, little Primrose," cautioned her Aunt, "thou must keep guard over thy tongue as if with a steel chain, for thy cousin's sake." "It will never be a traitor tongue," returned the maiden proudly. Patty had been down in the kitchen helping with some ironing, and now she came up with an armful of stiff skirts.
The laundress came in on Mondays and Tuesdays to do the washing and ironing, and the "man" acted as janitor's helper at the factory three days of the week. The chauffeur was but a summer flourish; B. Phelps drove his own car eight months in the year. So when the door of the Dott mansion was opened by a butler and such a dignified, polite, imposing butler Mrs.
I am going to wear it this afternoon." "It's too early to wear summer clothes," Myrtella announced, continuing her ironing. "I never sewed the buttons on a purpose, so 's you couldn't wear it." "Well I will wear it! I am going right straight up stairs and pin it on." As the door slammed, Myrtella turned a beaming face on Norah: "It ain't hemmed!" she said with satisfaction.
One of them was helping in the kitchen, and another in the ironing; but then they had their books and their music, and in the evening all the families came out into the pleasure gardens, and had little tables with coffee before them, and the mamma knitted, and the papas smoked, and the young ladies listened to the band.
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