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Updated: May 5, 2025
That, I told myself, was all that life could be to me, just a round of washing and ironing and meal-getting and mending, fetch and carry, work and worry, from sun-up until sun-down, and many a time until midnight. And what, I demanded of the frying-pan on its nail above the stove-shelf, was I getting out of it? What was it leading to? And what would it eventually bring me?
She understood something of the plans of the guardian now; yet, like her companions, she was disappointed that the promised meal was not at hand. Miss Elting recovered her composure quickly. "We shall have to cook our own dinner, dears," she said. "Harriet, you sit down in the sun and rest; we will take care of the meal-getting." "You treat me as though I were an invalid.
But she decided that it was no time to feel pity or indeed any emotion that would interfere with meal-getting and continued prospecting for stores.
My dear, you don't half appreciate what it is to have such air to breathe. Only think, if you were shut up in a brick house on a narrow street as I am!" "Think!" retorted Kate, with sudden heat. "I 'd like to do something besides 'think'! I 'd like to try it!" "You mean you'd like to leave here? to go to the city?" "I do, certainly. Aunt Ellen, I'm simply sick of chicken-feeding and meal-getting.
After that the day was one blur of steam, dust, heat, and stifling fumes from the oven and the fat-kettle, broken always at regular intervals by meal-getting and chicken-feeding. What mattered the blue of the heavens or the green of the earth outside? To Hephzibah the one was "sky" and the other "grass." What mattered the sheen of silver on the emerald velvet of the valley far below?
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