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The empty space between them represents the site of this cottage. The one on the right is intended for Captain Millet. That on the left for " "For the secretary and his wife," cried the captain again, taking up the discourse. "An' look here, what d'ye think the double lines in pencil 'tween your cottage an' mine means?" "A wash-house, perhaps." "A wash'us," repeated the captain, with contempt.
I am nineteen." "Nineteen, dearie lor', an' you s' small an' all " "I am five feet three almost!" "Are ye, dearie lor'! But then I'm s' big, most other folks seems small to me 'specially men men is all children 'specially my man. Which do mind me. Sammy," she called, "go into the wash'us an' let Susie pump on ye. Susie, jest you pump water on your master's 'ead this moment." "Yes, ma'm!"
'Only two in our kitchen, said Mr. Muzzle; 'cook and 'ouse-maid. We keep a boy to do the dirty work, and a gal besides, but they dine in the wash'us. 'Oh, they dines in the wash'us, do they? said Mr. Weller. 'Yes, replied Mr. Muzzle, 'we tried 'em at our table when they first come, but we couldn't keep 'em.
Ay, an' the people o' the whole neighbourhood are now looked after, for Miss Robinson has bought up a grog-shop in Nobbs Lane one o' the worst places in Portsmouth an' converted it into a temperance coffee-house, wi' lots of beds to send people to when the Institoot overflows, an' a soup-kitchen for the destitoot poor, an' a wash'us for them and the soldiers' wives, an', in short, it has changed the whole place; but if I go on like this I'll send Moses to sleep, for I've heard 'im smotherin' his yawns more than once a'ready!"
It sent in the kitchen winders as if they'd bin made of tissue paper, sir, an' cook she went into highstericks in the coal-bunker, Margaret she swounded in the scullery, and Mary went into fits in the wash'us. But they're all right again, sir, only raither skeery ever since. We 'ad some trouble in puttin' it out, for the cumbustibles didn't seem to care much for water.
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