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The maids were in my way, so I sent them off for a holiday and the scrubwoman and I tackled the job and went through with it like wildfire. Ma nearly had a spasm, but she liked the looks of things when we had finished. You should have seen me, though. Ma didn't like my looks. I guess I did resemble a human mop if you know what that looks like." "I can imagine," laughed Grace.
"Ah-r-r-r chee!" says Swifty. "How do I know?" That's some surprisin' too; for as a rule he ain't strong on drawin' fine distinctions. If they're young and flossy dressed, he calls 'em "fluffs"; but anything over twenty-five, no matter how she's costumed, is a lady to Swifty, even a scrubwoman. So his describin' this visitor as a female party gets me curious.
"Hermione," he stammered, "Hermione what do you mean?" "I mean," she answered, proud head up-flung, "there were always plenty of men to tell me that when I was an office scrubwoman. Well?" she demanded fiercely, stung by something in his look, "what did you think I'd been?
All the drinks and all the clothes you want and a servant in the house as good as my mother's own, eh? No kick coming, eh, girl?" "You you wouldn't, Max you wouldn't ditch me. What could I do? Nothing nothing. I I can't hire out as a scrubwoman, I " "Come, come now, girl, you're pretty slick, but you you don't quite slide. What about that thirty-five hundred you got down in your jeans eh?
He was armed with a mop that he'd snatched from an astonished scrubwoman, and he stormed in whimpering that he was going to kill Gordon. Absurd, of course. A mop isn't a deadly weapon. Some of the clerks promptly rushed in and held Webb until an officer could be called. Then Pyramid laughed it off and refused to prosecute.
His mother says that if he has gone to one "shoeopodist" he has gone to a dozen. My scrubwoman tells me that she is "the only fair one" of her family. Her people, it appears, "are all olive." My scrubwoman is a widow. She has told me a number of times of the last days of her husband. It is a touching story.
Nor yet you didn't lock up the side-door Pullmans. I got fired as second assistant to the private secretary to the scrubwoman, 'cause she got pinched, so I came on down here to help Uncle Sam keep the border quiet." "They won't let you drum," interrupted Fatty. "You're too short." "I don't want to drum," was the indignant reply. "I want to get over into Mexico an' live in the mountains.
To my profound astonishment I find that the Correspondence-School system offers no course; to my despair I search the magazines for graphic illustration of an Obvious Society Leader confiding to an Obvious Scrubwoman: 'Six months ago my husband was no more a Perfect Gentleman than yours, but one day I persuaded him to mark that coupon, and all our social prominence and éclat we owe to that school.
Janice went back to her father's side and left Miss Peckham, whom she heard moving about the kitchen, strictly alone. Daddy told her all about the accident. It seemed, when he came down the stairs from the Chamber of Commerce, where he had gone on an errand, a scrubwoman had left a cake of soap on the next to the top step."
The floors are all hard wood and there are rugs for every room except the kitchen and laundry." "I brought an old dress along," Elfreda informed her friends. "I helped Ma set our cottage to rights this summer and I know something about work. We had two maids and a scrubwoman.
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