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Updated: July 4, 2025
"That, my dear Madam," said the Doctor, "must depend, like other terrestrial matters, upon circumstances; whether the gentleman bought fine cambric, or coarse cotton with pink portraits of the reigning Sovereign, to commence with; whether he catches many colds, has his pockets picked, takes snuff, or allows his washerwoman to use washing powders. But why do you want to know?"
Down the aisle swaggered Redney King, son of the washerwoman, a big hulking bully who used to tease her by pulling her hair during recess and by kicking at her shins when they happened to be next each other in the class standing in long line against the wall of the schoolroom for recitation. From her security she smiled at Redney as representative of all she loved in the old town.
Bet you half a dollar. My second bet," he said, warming to the work, "is an old washerwoman and her little boy, out on their rounds collecting clothes. It's Monday. In case both firsts are wrong, second choices get the money." "My bet is Ha! Stand ready with your half! There she comes Jove!" "Good God!" cried Peter and sprang up.
But it appeared that he had promised his mother to quit, and he had quit. Steve's mother was an old lady who in her day had been the best washerwoman on Cherry Hill. She was, moreover, completely lacking in all the qualities which go to make up the patroness of sport. Dingle had refused to be comforted until he had promised never to enter the ring again.
Pierston made him welcome, and they went towards Sylvania Castle. 'You were staring, as far as I could see, at a pretty little washerwoman with a basket of clothes? resumed the painter. 'Yes; it was that to you, but not to me. Yes, I am under a doom.
About a twelvemonth before he had been ill some time, but I cannot tell how long. What was his illness? He had a great cold. Did he take any physic? I believe he did once or twice. Can you tell the time? I believe it was the latter end of July or beginning of August. Who made the whey and broth that were sent to the washerwoman? My fellow-servant made the whey; I made the broth.
What I came here for is to tell you, that last night the Renegade and Centipede brought to my house a basket somewhat larger than that now before us; it was as full as it could hold of fine linen, and, on my life and soul, it was still wet and covered with soap, just as they had taken it from under the nose of the washerwoman, so that the poor fellows were perspiring and breathless beneath its weight.
A very few instances will be sufficient, not as precepts, but as illustrations. A strange washerwoman, coming late at night for the "things," will burst in by mistake to the patient's sick-room, after he has fallen into his first doze, giving him a shock, the effects of which are irremediable, though he himself laughs at the cause, and probably never even mentions it.
I have seen negro slave women at work in the field, with a muscular development that would be the envy of a Bowery boy. The washerwoman and the field slave show what can be done by cultivation.
Then Toad fell on his knees among the coals and, raising his clasped paws in supplication, cried, 'Save me, only save me, dear kind Mr. Engine-driver, and I will confess everything! I am not the simple washerwoman I seem to be! I have no children waiting for me, innocent or otherwise! I am a toad the well-known and popular Mr.
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