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An attendant then lathers him from head to foot with a perfumed cake of soap and gives him a gentle but thorough scrubbing with an oval brush like that in use among hostlers finishing the operation by vigorously shampooing, Oriental fashion, each separate joint of his whole body, with a result of exquisite relief not exaggerated by Eastern travellers as applicable to well people and quite beyond expression when its subject is the poor, long-tortured frame of a sick opium-eater.
Now, presently they heard Baba Mustapha say in a louder tone, like one that is secure from interruption, 'Two lathers, and this the third! a potent lather! and I wot there's not a hair in this world resisteth the sweep of my blade over such a lather as Ah! flea of iniquity and abomination! what! am I doomed to thy torments? so let's spread!
At this moment the refrain of a song from somewhere near the board fence came wafting through the air, "And he wiped up the floor wid McGeechy." McGaw turned his head in search of the singer, and not finding him, resumed his position. "What are your rates per ton?" asked Babcock. "We're a-chargin' forty cints," said McGaw, deferring to Lathers, as if for confirmation. "Who's 'we'?"
To commemorate that sniveling tramp and his, fraternal duplicate. And he is going to send me the remains. The late Claimant was a fool, but plainly this new one's a maniac. What a name! Mulberry Sellers there's music for you, Simon Lathers Mulberry Sellers Mulberry Sellers Simon Lathers. Sounds like machinery working and churning. Simon Lathers, Mulberry Sel Are you going?"
Ye know very well the fight I've made, standin' out on this dock, many a day an' night, in the cold an' wet, with nothin' between Tom's children an' the street but these two hands an' yet ye'd slink in like a dog to get me" "Here, now, I ain't a-goin' to have no row," said Lathers, twitching his shoulders. "It's against orders, an' I'll call the yard-watch, and throw you out if you make any fuss."
"The property on this side the mountain belongs to my wife, but we ain't living here yet; we are stopping with folks down by the station. Likely we'll move, soon's I get back from my trip. That is, if the boys get busy. Seem's if I have to keep after some of them all the time. To-day it's the lathers. I've got to stop, going through Weatherbee, to tell my wife to have an eye on them.
So did the buoy and the moving truck. With head up, eyes blazing, her silk hood pushed back from her face, as if to give her air, her gray ulster open to her waist, her right hand bare of a glove, came Tom Grogan, brushing the men out of her way. "I knew I'd find you, Pete Lathers," she said, facing him squarely; "why do ye want to be takin' the bread out of me children's mouths?"
Babcock noticed particularly his low, flat forehead when he removed his hat, and the dry, red hair growing close to the eyebrows. "I wuz a-sp'akin' to me fri'nd Mister Lathers about doin' yer wurruk," began McGaw, resting one foot on a pile of barrow-planks, his elbow on his knee. "I does all the haulin' to the foort. Surgint Duffy knows me.
Now, presently they heard Baba Mustapha say in a louder tone, like one that is secure from interruption, 'Two lathers, and this the third! a potent lather! and I wot there's not a hair in this world resisteth the sweep of my blade over such a lather as Ah! flea of iniquity and abomination! what! am I doomed to thy torments? so let's spread!
He turned to his wife, who had entered while this was going on, put his arms about her and said "You will bear up, for my sake, my lady it had to happen, it was decreed." She bore up very well, and said: "It's no great loss. Simon Lathers was a poor well-meaning useless thing and no account, and his brother never was worth shucks."
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