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She held it up before Hannah's eyes. "Tomorrow morning," she said sternly, "You take off that white cap and that fol-de-rol apron and that black henrietta cloth, and put on a calico wrapper. And when you've got this room aired and swept, Mrs. Wilson will give you this."
And shall I permit the authors of it to live undisturbed in their insult and triumph over me? No, by hell, come of me what will! Lower I cannot be in my own esteem than I already am: tremble those who made me so! Beating has but rendered this rascal more impatient and active. Every thing is prepared. The house is hired, aired, and provided with a proper guardian.
'Why didn't you come to Bowshott, you ass, if you are ill? said Peter sternly. 'You will kill yourself some day coming down to this half-warmed barn in the winter-time. 'It isn't half warmed, said Toffy. 'I wish it were! This room is all right, isn't it? I aired another sofa by sleeping on it last night. 'What on earth for? demanded Peter, still in a tone of remonstrance.
In the sleeping rooms upstairs the feather beds were beaten and aired, the sheets and blankets and patchwork comforters exposed to the light, and the window curtains dragged down and left to flap on the clothesline. The smell of musty dampness disappeared from the dining room and the wholesome odors of outdoors and of good things cooking took its place.
He left the sentence unfinished and took refuge in more pressing questions. "What about the bedroom on the second floor? Is it ready? Sheets aired all that sort of thing?" "It can be," replied Mrs. Travers. The tone was suggestive of judgment reserved. "I think, if you don't mind, Mrs. Travers, that we'd like to go to bed as soon as possible."
Whenever he thought it safe to do so he aired these opinions and, as there were a few of what Captain Hunniwell called "yellow-backed swabs" in Orham or its neighborhood, he occasionally had sympathetic listeners. Phineas, it is only fair to say, had never heretofore shown any marked interest in labor except to get as much of it for as little money as possible.
The sheets and hangings smelled faintly of lavender, the walls were papered with landscapes in which pretty shepherdesses, impossible sheep, and garlands of roses predominated, a style much in vogue in the early forties, indeed the room seemed as if it had been closed and laid away by a tidy housewife years before, and opened and aired for my reception but yesterday.
She kept them clean, well aired, and shaken, and she would not have a spring-bed or a hair mattress in the house. She was conservatism itself. She could no more change and be correct to her own understanding than the multiplication table. "Feather-beds are good enough for anybody who stays in this hotel, I don't care who it is," she said.
'I asked her in the morning if my sheets had been aired, and she said that they had not. She further explained that she had taken the precaution of feeling them, and that they had not seemed very wet! 'Oh, hang Mrs. Avory! said Peter inwardly. 'Why has not Toffy got a good wife to look after him?
Your bed's at the top of the house, child, and there you'll find a suit o' clothes that I've washed and aired after the last boy. I only hope you won't catch any of his nasty tricks in 'em. Straight up the stairs and the little door to the left at the top." "Unless" Mr. Trapp picked up courage for one more pleasantry "you'd like to make a start at once and go up by way of the chimbley."
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