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Updated: May 6, 2025
Mrs. Howland raised a distracted face. "Really, I can't think," she said, "my head is so weak." "Well, mum," said Matilda, "s'pose as missus and me does the 'ousekeepin' for you to-day. You ain't fit, mum; it's but to look at you to know that. It's lyin' down you ought to be, with haromatic vinegar on your 'ead." "You're quite right, Matilda. Well, you see to the things to-day.
George, having the quality of mind which makes jokes more readily than sees them, took him quite seriously. 'Well, he answered solemnly, 'I hope you won't bring us bad luck, at all events! 'I 'ope so, sir, I'm sure. I 'ope so. It will not be by any desire on my part, more partickler when you're just settin' up 'ousekeepin' with your good lady 'ere. But there's no tellin' in these matters.
I sez to John, sez I, 'I cawn't do no 'ousekeepin' with all 'em children 'bout my feet. An', bless their 'earts! it's all I kin do to put the bread in their mouths an keep the rags on their backs. But John sez to me, sez 'e, 'Don't yeh worry, lass, 'bout the rags. Keep 'em full, sez 'e, 'a full belly never 'eeds a bare back, sez 'e. That's 'is way.
"Consequently 'e bought all your furnitur' to set up 'ousekeepin', don't ye see." "Yes, I see, Adam!" Her voice was low, soft and gentle as ever, but the pencil was tracing meaningless scrawls in her shaking fingers. "So you don't 'ave to be no-wise back-ard about keepin' the money, Miss Anthea." "Oh no, no, of course not, I I understand, it was just a business transaction."
'You think, she went on quietly, seeing she had 'got them' 'you think we women 'ave no business servin' on Boards and thinking about politics. In a tone of exquisite contempt, 'But wot's politics! she demanded. 'It's just 'ousekeepin' on a big scyle. Somebody applauded. 'Oo among you workin' men 'as the most comfortable 'omes? Those of you that gives yer wives yer wyges. 'That's it!
Well, the Poor Laws and the 'ole Government is just in the syme muddle because the men 'ave tried to do the national 'ousekeepin' without the women! They hooted, but they listened, too. 'Like I said to you before, it's a libel to say it's only the well-off women wot's wantin' the vote. I can tell you wot plenty o' the poor women think about it. I'm one o' them!
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