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Updated: October 22, 2025
THAT'S what ye'r' comin' to the old washer-woman for is it?" she burst out with the desperation of disgust. "Well give it up! Ask me another!" "But, mother the old records, you know! The family Bible what you once told us me and Jinny!" Something gurgled in her throat like a chuckle.
I suppose it was Miss Harbison I saw go past this morning? Don't move, my little man." "I do' know," demurred the washer-woman, whose sole recreation in life was the faculty of speech. "I ain't seen Mis' Harbison to town to-day. They's him and her and the boys. Both the boys is away f'm home now. What-fer lookin' woman?" "It was a young lady in a wide hat."
He was saying to himself: "William the Conqueror was a baker's son; Napoleon was the friend of a washer-woman; Cecil Rhodes was a poor boy but they didn't stay tied down too long." Now and again, a rabbit scuttled off to cover, and often with the whir of drumming wings a grouse rose noisily and lumbered away with spread tail into the painted foliage.
He there conducted himself so much to the satisfaction of Bonaparte, that, on the rupture with your country, he was made commander of the camp near Montreuil; and last year his wife was received as a Maid of Honour to the Empress of the French. This Maid of Honour is the daughter of a washer-woman, and was kept by a man-milliner at Strasburg, at the time that she eloped with Ney.
The word "woman" does not reach up to this, because in its broad and strong etymology it may mean a washer-woman, a fighting woman, a coarse woman, alas! a drunken woman. If we hear of "a drunken lady," we see a downfall, a glimpse of better days; chloral, opium, even cologne, may have brought her to it. The word still saves her miserable reputation a little.
By first, Mrs. Gresley meant without a second. She had this morning seen Emma laying Hester's clean clothes on her bed, just returned from a distant washer-woman whom the Gresleys did not employ, and whom they had not wished Hester to employ. The sight of those two white dressing-gowns, beautifully "got up" with goffered frills, had aroused afresh in Mrs.
The soldiers at the gen-er-al's door would not let him go in. At last some one told the gen-er-al that a queer-looking fellow wanted to see him. "Let him come up," said the general. The odd little man came in. He told the general all about the troubles of the poor washer-woman. The general sent word that the soldiers must not stay any longer in her house. The general liked the kind little man.
In short, it is horrid to think what the poor creatures suffered. Several of them were beggars, who, from having no lodging, were necessarily found in the street, and others honest labouring women. One of the dead was a poor washer-woman, big with child, who was returning home late from washing. * These same men, the same night, broke into a bagnio in Covent Garden, and took up Jack Spencer, Mr.
'Addio, Gustavo. He bowed until his napkin swept the ground. 'Addio, Costantina, she waved her hand toward her namesake. The washer-woman laughed again, and her earrings flashed in the sunlight. Giuseppe raised the yellow sail; they caught the breeze, and the Farfalla floated away.
Some other girls and I had fixed up a sort of house-picnic for washer-woman Biddy's children, who were all down with the measles, and just to amuse them I took stepmother's boys, the four young Snowballs haven't they the absurdest name? along; and she she didn't like it. She said things.
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