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Updated: July 22, 2025
It isn't fair, it isn't straight business; from a social standpoint, it isn't well-bred." "Well-bred!" she retorted with a scornful laugh and a look of angry disdain. "You once said I had the manners of Madame Sans Gene, the washer-woman a sickly joke, it was. Are you going to be my guide in manners?
Excessively sick and worn, poor man: with precisely eleven-pence-half-penny of ready-money, in paper; with slipper-bath; strong three-footed stool for writing on, the while; and a squalid Washer-woman, one may call her: that is his civic establishment in Medical-School Street; thither and not elsewhither has his road led him.
If he chronicled his conversation with a washer-woman there was something arresting in the words he said, something singular in her reply. If he met a man in a public-house one felt, after reading his account, that one would wish to know more of that man.
The one and all came this morning and as I expected it was all full of love from you. I DID get happiness out of the thought you put in it. And all done in an hour. The underclothes made me weep. I could get none here. Not because Mexicans are not as large as I am, but because no Mexican of any size would wear 'em. So I've had to wash the few that the washer-woman didn't destroy myself.
All except two of the children were born in the same one-room log cabin with a dirt floor, in the town of Paulding, Jasper County, Miss. My mother did the cooking for her master's family and the plantation help, did all of the milking, and was also washer-woman. In the summer of 1896 I again visited Paulding, just after graduating from Tuskegee.
"I have said nothing to Anne; Anne has said nothing to me. But we both know. She has counted the stockings too. We are both old maids. No, I have not seen them yet anything but their stockings on the clothes-line. But the mother is not a washer-woman there is no hope. I don't know how I know she isn't a washer-woman, but I do. It is impressed upon me.
"He is trying to find out a secret that will lick all the printing offices in France and Navarre." "And meantime you take your orders from a washer-woman, you snip of a foreman, on two francs a day." "She is pretty though," retorted Cerizet; "it is better to have her to look at than the phizes of your gaffers." "And do you live by looking at his wife?"
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