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Updated: June 7, 2025
"Yes, Sir," said the gold headlights, "I think he's gone to see about it." He had looked her slowly over again from the blondine hair and the ash-colored V of unclean skin and waistless slop of slattern wrapper to clock work stockings and high heeled slippers. "A ha' ma doubts he's sprintin' fr' the back door this minute!
As we approached, a gipsy girl, with a pair of fine roguish eyes, came up, and, as usual, offered to tell our fortunes. I could not but admire a certain degree of slattern elegance about the baggage. Her long black silken hair was curiously plaited in numerous small braids, and negligently put up in a picturesque style that a painter might have been proud to have devised.
And yet the girl, who had always been on the most distant terms with her grandmother's servants who had been in the house for years, found herself confessing to this good-natured slattern that she had nevertheless slept soundly and felt refreshed. Breakfast was so pleasant as to cause visions of an unlocked trunk to float through Elsie's mind.
He had middle-class instincts, and it seemed a dreadful thing to him to marry a waitress. A common wife would prevent him from getting a decent practice. Besides, he had only just enough money to last him till he was qualified; he could not keep a wife even if they arranged not to have children. He thought of Cronshaw bound to a vulgar slattern, and he shuddered with dismay.
What with your exercises, some reading, and a great deal of company, your day is, I confess, extremely taken up; but the day, if well employed, is long enough for everything; and I am sure you will not slattern away one moment of it in inaction. At your age, people have strong and active spirits, alacrity and vivacity in all they do; are 'impigri', indefatigable, and quick.
Doña Victorina was at length able to articulate. "I, envious of you, I, of you?" drawled the Muse. "Yes, I envy you those frizzes!" "Come, woman!" pleaded the doctor. "D-don't t-take any n-notice!" "Let me teach this shameless slattern a lesson," replied his wife, giving him such a shove that he nearly kissed the ground. Then she again turned to Doña Consolacion.
Lady," he bent swiftly to the slattern under the torch and his accents were a healing effluence, "with my soothing, balmy oils, you can cure yourself in three weeks, or your money back." "I do' know haow you knew," faltered the woman. "I ain't told no one yet. Kinder hoped it wa'n't thet, after all." He brooded over her compassionately. "You've suffered needlessly.
All that I desire of you is, that you will never slattern away one minute in idleness and in doing of nothing. I really ask your pardon for giving you this advice; because, if you are a rational creature and thinking being, as I suppose, and verily believe you are, it must be unnecessary, and to a certain degree injurious.
This time the girl heard the woman's voice and her words: "Yes she's there, the stuck-up hussy!" The voice was that of the slattern. The man laughed jeeringly. "Jealous, eh?" he said. "Well, she is a mighty good-looking girl, for a fact!" That was all. The girl heard Deveny step into a room the room adjoining hers; she could hear his heavy boots striking the floor as he removed them.
And if I am brave and fine it would be said of me, 'The hussy's gown is brave and fine! And if I go in tatters, 'What slattern have we here, flaunting her boldness in the very sun? So a comradeship with any man is all one to me.
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