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On the whole, I think she did, for as she was about to ascend the stairs, with the sullen look deepening or changing into a sort of gloomy apprehension, she hesitated, glanced behind her, and finally, with a muttered "Plague take the young one," turned back, and, catching him by the arm of his tattered dress, landed him on the topmost step, in a mud-puddle! but she did it because she remembered that he would be very likely to climb into the tub of soapsuds that stood at the foot of the bed, and so get drowned.
She met them at the gate, after their week's camping. They were feeling in splendid health, the best spirits possible in the circumstances, but appearing dirty and disreputable. They were both laughing as they approached the gate. "Purty lookin' bride you be!" Mrs. Holt spat at Kate. "Yes, aren't I?" laughed Kate. "But you just give me a tub of hot soapsuds and an hour, and you won't know me.
"I hazed him away because he insulted you," he said bluntly, not quite believing in her ignorance. Flora, her hands buried deep in the soapsuds, looked at him round-eyed. "I never heard of that before," she said slowly. "When, Billy? And what did he say?" Billy stared at her. "I don't know what he said! I wouldn't think you'd need to ask.
Dan looked after him a moment, and then went into the dining room, where his grandmother was sitting at the head of her table, washing her pink teaset in a basin of soapsuds. She wore her stiff, black silk this morning with its dainty undersleeves of muslin, and her gray curls fell beneath her cap of delicate yellowed lace. "Come and kiss me, child," she said as he entered. "Did you sleep well?"
"I don't suppose you've forgotten your way into the parlor. Keep well away from me or you may get some soapsuds on your fine clothes." She raised her red arms above her head and flattened herself against the wall with elaborate care. Burton, hating himself and the whole situation, stepped into the parlor. Ellen followed him as far as the threshold.
"Then you'll never argue but with yourself," said the stout young surgeon. Then arose the voices of the men militant over those of the men curative. "The finest eye," vociferated our skipper, "Captain Templar, that ever beamed from mortal. Its lovely blue, contrasted with her white skin, is just like " "A washerwoman's stone-blue bag among her soapsuds stony enough."
Laban slid from his perch and retired behind the table. "Another man," he repeated. "And SOME folks not many, of course, but some might be crazy enough to say he was a better-lookin' man than I am. Now, bein' ragin' jealous, All right, Rachel, all right, I surrender. Don't hit me with all those soapsuds. I don't want to go back to the office foamin' at the mouth.
On either side was the entrance to a tenement; a sagging nail in one of the door-posts held a coat and a singed and battered hat. Here Helen knocked. Mrs. Davis was in the small inner room, but came out as her visitor entered, wiping the soapsuds from her bare arms on her dingy gingham apron.
From overhead, sunlight came down through sea-green glass. "I suppose, sir, that you'd like hot rosewater and soapsuds this morning, sir and perhaps cold salt water to finish." The negro was standing beside him. "Yes," agreed John, smiling inanely, "as you please." Any idea of ordering this bath according to his own meagre standards of living would have been priggish and not a little wicked.
And from the time the furniture was moved out until it went back, all one could smell or see in the house was soapsuds and bare, wet floors. If one wished to sit down, they had to retire to the yard, and repose on a pile of carpets. If they wished to eat, they had to do so off the kitchen table on the side porch.
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