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'As you're perfect in that, resumed Squeers, turning to the boy, 'go and look after MY horse, and rub him down well, or I'll rub you down. The rest of the class go and draw water up, till somebody tells you to leave off, for it's washing-day tomorrow, and they want the coppers filled.
In the spring, the country is patched with white around white, with the blossoms in the fruit plantations. Broad acres of cherry orchards spread their snow-white sheets out in the sun a giant's washing-day.
An open court it ought to be, with a row of houses on each side, and an open space in the middle; but it is not an open space to-day, for it is everybody's washing-day in Grey Friars Court, and long lines are stretched from side to side, and shirts and petticoats and stockings and all manner of garments are waving in the breeze.
I'm sure I don't know what I've done to be married to a man of such principles. No: and the whole house DOESN'T taste of soap-suds either; and if it did, any other man but yourself would be above naming it. I suppose I don't like washing-day any more than yourself. What do you say? "Ha! you're wrong there, Mr. Caudle. No; I don't like it because it makes everybody else uncomfortable.
Whenever we traverse the halls we are obliged to leap over pails of suds, and Miss Diggity-Dalgety has given us two dinners which bore a curious resemblance to washing-day repasts in suburban America. "Is it spring house-cleaning?" I ask Mistress M'Collop. "Na, na," she replies hurriedly; "it's the meenisters." On the 19th of May we are a maiden castle no longer.
I know the ways of real gentlemen and real ladies, and I know those fellows in store clothes that look a little too fine, outside. Wait till washing-day comes!"
"If," she continued, as Minora made no reply appreciative of this suggestion, "you were to call unexpectedly, the bad luck which pursues the innocent would most likely make you hit on a washing-day, and the distracted mistress of the house would keep you waiting in the cold room so long while she changed her dress, that you would begin to fear you were to be left to perish from want and hunger; and when she did appear, would show by the bitterness of her welcoming smile the rage that was boiling in her heart."
Since the British occupation, nearly twenty years before, Kennett Square had not known as lively a day as that which followed. The men and boys were in the street, grouped in front of the tavern, the women at the windows, watching, some with alarmed, but many with amused faces. Sally Fairthorn, although it was washing-day, stole up through Dr.
I got drunk two evenings running, and then, as it appeared afterwards, Mary consulted Jack, and at last she said to him, when we were together 'Do you play draughts, Mr Barnes? 'No, said Jack. 'Do you, Mr Wilson? she asked, suddenly turning her big, bright eyes on me, and speaking to me for the first time since last washing-day.
'Bravo! said the ass; 'upon my word, you make a famous noise; pray what is all this about? 'Why, said the cock, 'I was just now saying that we should have fine weather for our washing-day, and yet my mistress and the cook don't thank me for my pains, but threaten to cut off my head tomorrow, and make broth of me for the guests that are coming on Sunday! 'Heaven forbid! said the ass, 'come with us Master Chanticleer; it will be better, at any rate, than staying here to have your head cut off!
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