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Updated: May 3, 2025
"We've only got half an hour," said Clover, unhooking the rules, and carrying them to the window, "Half an hour; and this says that we must turn the mattress, smooth the under-sheet over the bolster, and spend five minutes in silent devotion! We'll have to be quick to do all that besides dressing ourselves!" It is never easy to be quick, when one is in a hurry. Every thing sets itself against you.
My heart is fair broken to think o' the cook and Eelen Young makin' a hash of the apple jeely and the damson jam. They are sure to forget the maist needfu' thing of a' and that's neither more nor less than an extra under-sheet o' good writing-paper, cut to size and weel soakit in whusky. And as for the mistakes they will make in the labelling and dating, it's a sin and a shame to think on't.
"Oh! about being punctual to prayers, and turning you mattress, and smoothing over the under-sheet before you leave your room, and never speaking a word in the hall, or in private study hour, and hanging your towel on your own nail in the wash-room, and all that." "Wash-room? what do you mean?" said Katy, aghast. "At the head of Quaker Row, you know.
I felt about, and I felt only the warm hollow her body had left in the under-sheet. Even in my agony and helplessness the intimacy of that warmth her body had left was very dear to me. Perhaps I should have ceased, had I not heard a terrible coughing from along the hall. It was new life to me. I fell from bed to floor and managed to get upright until I gained the hall, where again I fell.
'Well, now, the under-sheet you must bring over the bolster so, and tuck it right down under the mattress nice and smooth so. Do you see? 'Yes, missis. 'But the upper sheet, said Miss Ophelia, 'must be brought down in this way, and tucked under, firm and smooth, at the foot so, the narrow hem at the foot. 'Yes, missis, said Topsy as before.
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