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Updated: May 22, 2025
Benton, plaiting her hands, for she had not yet lost something of the look and manner of a little girl, answered in her flat, but serene voice: "Yes, sir; and I hope you're not going anywhere very dangerous this time. I always think you go to such dangerous places." "To Persia, Mrs. Benton, where the carpets come from." "Oh! yes, sir. Your washing's just come home."
"Three and sixpence for my rent, and breakfast costs threepence nearly only bread-and-butter that's five and two; and washing's always at least tenpence that's six; and little things last week was a shilling even when I don't take buses seven; that leaves five shillings for my dinners. Mr. Stone always gives me tea. It's my clothes worries me."
"You see, this house has only got four reception-rooms and eight bedrooms, and all the washing's done at home, and all the dressmaking, and there's a good deal of entertaining, mostly when you're not there, and everything has to be right up to the mark.
Well, washing's a thing I'm not fond of either, and it's kind of curious that when one man starts in at it everybody wants the coal-oil can." They murmured languid concurrence, for, as he said, clothes must be washed and mended now and then, and the man who has just finished a long day's arduous toil seldom feels any great inclination for the task.
That handkerchief got into somebody's hands. That somebody is probably the murderer. As to how it can be traced well, I suggest this. As far as I'm conversant with laundry matters, families, such as Mrs. Marriner says she works for, have laundry books. These books are checked, I believe, when the washing's sent home.
If I take the rooms for such a small sum now, while I am poor, will you let me make it up to you when I succeed? I shall succeed!" The last words burst from her involuntarily, forced from her with emphasis in spite of herself. "That's what I like to hear; that's spirit, that is!" Ethel Maud Mary exclaimed, nodding approvingly. "You'll do all right. So it's a bargain. Washing's included, you know.
"Washing's all done, but there's a lot o' your shirts waiting to be ironed an' me here, lettin' me iron get cold!" "Oh, never mind the shirts, Mrs. Trapes! Pray sit down; I need your counsel and advice." "But me iron?" "Give it to me there!" and Mr. Ravenslee deposited it outside on the fire escape. "Now Mrs. Trapes," said he, "first of all, I must find work.
I'd stake my life that her washing's all a pretence. She's packed off the other two, and she's come here so as to tell them how you take it." Gervaise removed her hands from her face and looked. When she beheld Virginie in front of her, amidst three or four women, speaking low and staring at her, she was seized with a mad rage.
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