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Updated: May 21, 2025
"I shouldn't knock a ball over on a wet evening like this." "Well, the skivvy won't think of that, and Pomeroy will guess that we're trying to communicate with him." Mark thought how odd it was that Hacking should be so utterly blind to the romance of the enterprise.
This out-house was so near to the watcher, that he could hear the pretty, eager, flaxen-haired, savage-faced little woman muttering to herself as she scraped and shovelled. He could, after a fashion, speak the Taal, and knew her more distinct phrases for European Dutch. "Not used to the job," reasoned Dick. "And no skivvy in the house this week."
In three minutes Mansus was with T. X. and had reduced the girl's incoherence to something like order. "This is important," said T. X.; "produce the Abigail." "The ?" asked the puzzled officer. "The skivvy slavey hired help get busy," said T. X. impatiently. They brought her to T. X. in a condition bordering upon collapse. "Get her a cup of tea," said the wise chief.
He pushed his coarse brown moustache upwards, off his lip, and glanced irritably at his sister, who sat impassive and inscrutable. 'You'll go and stop with Lucy for a bit, shan't you? he asked. The girl did not answer. 'I don't see what else you can do, persisted Fred Henry. 'Go as a skivvy, Joe interpolated laconically. The girl did not move a muscle.
She had sense of humour enough to laugh at these, and often wished she dared repeat them for her father's edification. "The daughter of the King of Lonely Farm," she said to Farwell one day with her mocking smile and comical courtesy "is bidden to the service of Mrs. Flighty High as skivvy. If this comes to the king's ears, 'twill mean the head of Mrs. Flighty High!"
The only thing that cheered Rees up as he was wheeled away was the voice of Pinker crying, "Jer want white flowers on yer coffin? We'll see to the brass 'andles!" From Pinker, a little boy from the Mile End Road, they will stand anything. "I ain't no skivvy," he protests all the time, but every little odd job gets done.
By shopping at the stores there, they save their fares, and have a day out each week." "May I go that way, then?" he said. "Suppose you send that goggle-eyed skivvy of yours on an errand." This was done, and Furneaux made the desired transit.
But the conventions of domesticity were far too strong for her also. Mrs. Tams was the general servant; what Louis occasionally called "the esteemed skivvy." Once Mrs. Tams had been wife, mother, grandmother, victim, slave, diplomatist, serpent, heroine. Once she had bent from morn till night under the terrific weight of a million perils and responsibilities.
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