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Trapp had walked over and taken the ferry to Cremyll, where his boat was fitting out for the summer. "But Mrs. Trapp is washing-up at the back. Shall I call her?" "God forbid!" said he. "I am not come to listen, but to speak." I asked him then if I could take a message. "As wine in a leaky vessel, so is a message committed to a child. Two of my chimneys need to be swept."
She was in the state of nerves when a little unexpected sympathy is the most upsetting thing imaginable. "Oh, I can't let you!" she answered hastily. "No really!" as Gillian calmly took the tray she was carrying out of her hands. "Supposing you go and lie down for a little while," suggested Gillian practically. "And leave the washing-up to Coppertop and me!"
From the kitchen came the muffled clatter of earthenware and occasionally a harsh, loud voice; it was the hour of relaxed discipline in the kitchen, where amid the final washing-up and much free discussion and banter, Florrie was recommencing her career on a grander basis. Hilda closed the door very quietly. When she had closed it and was shut in with George Cannon her emotion grew intenser.
"I'll do the washing, Nora, and you can dry," said Gertie in that peculiar tone which Nora had learned to recognize as the preface to something disagreeable. "All right." "I've noticed the things aren't half clean when I leave them to you to do." "I'm sorry; why didn't you tell me?" "I suppose yon never did the washing-up in England. Too grand?" But Nora was not to be ruffled just now.
It was a custom to which I was determined to cling with grim resolution. If I allowed his treatment of me to become too casual we might continue to drift apart even when we had some one to do the washing-up. Henry came over to me and bestowed a labial salute. It is the only adequate description I can give of the performance. Then I went to the kitchen and got out the cookery-book.
Potts stirred the fire in a shower of sparks, picked up a book and flung it down, searched through the sewing-kit for something that wasn't lost, and then went to the door to look at the weather so he said. O'Flynn sat dozing by the fire. He was in the way of the washing-up. "Stir your stumps, Jimmie," said the Colonel, "and get us a bucket of water."
And they, on their side, felt glad when the "washing-up" was over and Grandmamma sent them upstairs to their nursery, where they had lessons every morning for two hours with a young girl whose mother had a sort of dame school in the village. "... they are what their birth And breeding suffer them to be Wild outcasts of society." Gypsies WORDSWORTH.
This is why autumn seems better than spring: in the autumn we are eating our days downwards, in the spring each day still seems "Very bad." People should live on this principle more than they do, but they do live on it a good deal; from the age of, say, fifty we eat our days downwards. In New Zealand for a long time I had to do the washing-up after each meal.
In transcribing I have thought it better, as regards the spelling, to adopt the more conventional forms. "You will be pleased to hear," Veronica wrote, "that we are all quite well. Robin works very hard. But I think it does her good. And of course I help her. All I can. I am glad she has got a boy. To do the washing-up. I think that was too much for her. It used to make her cross.
She had wished to correct the levity of the younger brother and sister, and he evidently appreciated her intentions. He seemed a nice man, a very nice man. Tea once over, she carried off the loaded tray to the kitchen to do the washing-up. Jimbo and Monkey had disappeared.
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