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Francesca, who was holding a plunging child between her knees, actively inspecting its head, grunted but did not look up, and the oracle of the wash-tubs, provokingly, with slow movements of her knotted coffee-coloured arms, flapped a dainty skirt, half-covered with drawn work, before she condescended to speak further.
Stillman told his daughters to "stir around" themselves, and not let their mother do all the work. "Oh, dear," said Margaret one morning, as she and Rachel were bending over the wash-tubs, while Susy labored at the heavy churning and the mother and Elizabeth were preparing dinner. "I wish we could go to the picnic on the Fourth; everybody's going." "Maybe we can," said Rachel, hopefully.
But her frantic son disregarded her. "Second-hand wash-tubs!" he vociferated. "And tin clothes-boilers! THAT'S what you want your SON to carry through the public streets in broad daylight! Ye gods!" "Well, there isn't anybody else," she said. "Please don't rave so, Willie, and say 'Ye gods' so much; it really isn't nice. I'm sure nobody 'll notice you " "'Nobody'!" His voice cracked in anguish.
Their lives are hard, their husbands are harder and stonier than the fields they half-reclaim to raise their daily bread from, their existence is labor and endurance; no grace, no beauty, no soft leisure or tender caress mitigates the life that wears itself away on wash-tubs, cheese-presses, churns, cooking-stoves, and poultry; but truth and strength and purity lie clear in these rocky basins, and love lurks like a jewel at the bottom, visible only when some divine sun-ray lights it up, love as true and deep and healthy as it is silent and unknown.
His Italian lakes had brought him fame. He knew very little of the grind and hunger that attended the careers of his whilom associates. His father had left him some valuable patents wash-tubs, carpet-cleaners, and other labor-saving devices and the royalties from these were quite sufficient to keep him pleasantly housed. Of what, he rarely told.
I answered that we intended to get along with one, and if she understood her business, I thought she would find her work very easy, and the place a good one. She turned sharp upon me and said: "Have ye stationary wash-tubs?" I hesitated. I knew our wash-tubs were not stationary, for I had helped to carry them about.
Down at the kitchen door we've got a mangle, five wash-tubs, and the best part of a ton o' coal. It's the windies I'm anxious about, for they're ower big to fill up. But I've gotten tubs of water below them and a lot o' wire-nettin' I fund in the cellar." Sir Archie morosely wiped his brow. "I can't say I ever hated a job more," he told Saskia.
"I have been in everything," said Newman. "At one time I sold leather; at one time I manufactured wash-tubs." Madame de Bellegarde made a little grimace. "Leather? I don't like that. Wash-tubs are better. I prefer the smell of soap. I hope at least they made your fortune."
And if it is, I wouldn't trust but there are poor women who are praying as well when they're working over their wash-tubs as some ones when they're saying their rosaries and singing their Tantum Ergos. . . ." Another interruption and then "There's Bella Kinnish herself who keeps the corner shop, ma'am. Her husband was lost at the 'mackerel' two years for Easter.
"Oh no! Nobody except the whole town! WHY, when there's anything disgusting has to be done in this family why do I always have to be the one? Why can't Genesis bring the second-hand wash-tubs without ME? Why can't the second-hand store deliver 'em? Why can't "
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