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Updated: May 18, 2025
We hadn't yet realized the relative importance of certain affairs of life, according to a Dutchwoman's point of view. We glared reproachfully at the stout child, as much as to say, "Why don't you finish your swabbing at a proper hour?" Little was accomplished on either side by this skirmishing; so I put my pride in my pocket and inquired for her master. "Boot," replied the creature.
Well, when it come to that it worked the crowd like you never see anything like it, and everybody broke down and went to sobbing right out loud the poor girls, too; and every woman, nearly, went up to the girls, without saying a word, and kissed them, solemn, on the forehead, and then put their hand on their head, and looked up towards the sky, with the tears running down, and then busted out and went off sobbing and swabbing, and give the next woman a show.
Flocks of people, and the old thing moving along like grease. Leaves you standing. At first you don't half feel a fool. But on a boat like ours there's no time to look about. We're under-manned. That's what it is. Not enough of us to make it light for everybody. Ought to be altered. Got to be doing chores the whole time. Swabbing down, cooking " "Can you cook?" Sally was swift, arch, incredulous.
Upon the shore, at the spot where the Cypriani's boat ordinarily landed, stood a tallish, stocky young man, looking at them cheerfully and swabbing his brow with a large blue handkerchief. Catching Varney's eye, he waved his hand with the handkerchief in it, and said, for the second time: "Hello, aboard the Cypriani!" Varney stepped to the rail, a faint smile on his lip. "Hello, there!
"Sarvant, sir," said Tom, pulling his forelock, man-o'-war fashion, to the young officer. "Been showing Eben Megg how the cave was busted up, sir, in the storm. I beg pardon, sir; I've been scouring and swabbing out the boat 'smorning in case you and the luff-tenant wanted to go for a sail." "To be sure," cried Aleck, eagerly.
I remained below, complaining loudly of the heat and confined air of my situation, and swabbing all the while most energetically, when I saw my friend start. "Zounds, Tom, look behind you!" We had nothing but our riding switches in our hands.
The thought of swabbing down a lavatory and taking pennies all day is poisoning him." "Naturally. Well, there we have honest Hutchins: taciturn, a little touchy perhaps, grown grey in the service of the company, and manifesting quite a bulldog-like devotion to his favourite 538." "Why, that actually was the number of his engine how do you know it?" demanded Carlyle sharply.
He stepped back from the wheel, swabbing away his perspiration, and said Trying to play yourself for a stranger and an innocent! why, I knew you before you had spoken seven words; and I made up my mind to find out what was your little game. It was to DRAW ME OUT. Well, I let you, didn't I? Now take the wheel and finish the watch; and next time play fair, and you won't have to work your passage.
When the sun was vertical nobody stirred; when the bluish shadows began to creep out over baked sidewalks, broadening to a strip of superheated shade, a few stirred abroad in the deserted streets; here a policeman, thin blue summer tunic open, helmet in hand, swabbing the sweat from forehead and neck; there a white uniformed street sweeper dragging his rubber-edged mop or a section of wet hose; perhaps a haggard peddler of lemonade making for the Park wall around the Metropolitan Museum where, a little later, the East Side would venture out to sit on the benches, or the great electric tourists' busses would halt to dump out a living cargo perhaps only the bent figure of a woman, very shabby, very old, dragging her ancient bones along the silent splendour of Fifth Avenue, and peering about the gutters for something she never finds always peering, always mumbling the endless, wordless, soundless miserere of the poor.
"There's been some hundred millions o' buckets o' water slooshed about this here schooner." "More or less, Tom," said Mark, laughing. "Well, sir, I dessay you're right," said the man, "for I didn't count; but I've been hauling up buckets and swabbing till I don't seem to have no arms. Howsoever, we are a little bit more decent, and I don't think we shall have anything on our consciences to-night."
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