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It was cold and clammy, the finger-tips wrinkled like a washerwoman's, and at sight of her face his self-control deserted him, so that he dared not risk speech. For cholera does its work swiftly and efficaciously, and in eight hours Honor Desmond's beauty had been ruthlessly wiped out.
To be sure there were a great many heads, and the Bishop's time was limited. Moreover, a wig can, under no circumstances, be affecting, except in rare cases of illusion; and copious lawn-sleeves cannot be expected to go directly to any heart except a washerwoman's.
"And where was he when you were at the washerwoman's." "He was here and dere." "I know that it was he who killed and buried the dog, corporal." Corporal Van Spitter started, he thought he was discovered. "Kilt and perryed, mein Gott!" said the corporal, obliged to say something. "Yes, I overheard the men say so on deck, corporal.
The deacon was not much concerned; and some of Roswell Gardiner's clothes were still at his washerwoman's, circumstances that were fully explained, when the schooner was seen to anchor in Gardiner's Bay, which is an outer roadstead to all the ports and havens of that region. "Walk in the light! so shalt thou know That fellowship of love, His spirit only can bestow Who reigns in light above.
"And you think you'll really take him, aunt, and pay his washerwoman's bills for him? You remember what you told me when I first saw him?" "Oh, yes; I remember. And if he can't pay his own washerwoman, isn't that so much more of a reason that I should do it for him? Well; yes; I think I will take him. That is, if he lets me take him just as I choose. Beggars mustn't be choosers, my dear."
I beg your pardon, I rejoined; 'I thought you had been round your district. "This was wicked; for I knew quite well that she had no district. "'No, she answered, 'I leave that to my sister. Mamma is my district. And do you know, her headaches are as painful as any washerwoman's. "This shut me up rather; but I plucked up courage presently.
Wouldn't you take her for a princess? Ah, well, more power to her! But her mother cleaned soiled linen in Washerwoman's Lagoon and her dad renovated cuspidors, swept floors in the Bella Union." But the girl did not seem interested. "I wonder," she remarked a little later, "why it makes so very much ah difference ... who one's parents were?" There was a curious, half-detached sadness in her tone.
He spotted impossible Colonel Clays under a thousand disguises; he was quite convinced he had frightened his enemy away at least a dozen times over, beneath the varying garb of a fat club waiter, a tall policeman, a washerwoman's boy, a solicitor's clerk, the Bank of England beadle, and the collector of water-rates.
She wanted to see the whole of that skin beaten, covered with contusions. And she talked, seized with a ferocious gaiety, recalling a washerwoman's song, "Bang! Bang! Margot at her tub. Bang! Bang! Beating rub-a-dub. Bang! Bang! Tries to wash her heart. Bang! Bang! Black with grief to part." And then she resumed, "That's for you, that's for your sister. That's for Lantier.
The corporal then stated that he had taken the precaution to take the dog on shore, as he was afraid to leave it on board when he went to the washerwoman's, and that he was not long there, but while he was, the dog disappeared. He had looked everywhere, but could not find it. "You took Smallbones with you?" said Vanslyperken. "Yes, mynheer, to carry de linen."
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