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She was fully twenty years younger than himself, and under the slattern appearance which life in that house had imposed upon her there were vestiges of a certain comeliness. "There is a young woman here from Caen, who demands insistently to see you upon a matter of national importance." The dull eyes kindle at the mention of Caen; interest quickens in that leaden-hued countenance.
As the mother clasped it closer and rocked it against her shrunken breast a second and older woman appeared in the doorway, a witch-faced slattern who inquired in a nasal whine: "Kain't ye, no fashion, gentle him ter sleep, Sally?" The mother shook her head despondently.
But the next time I went to the Cross-Roads, the woman asked me: "Is your Pa for the Congress?" "What's that?" said I. "I reckon he ain't," said the woman, tartly. I recall her dimly, a slattern creature in a loose gown and bare feet, wife of the storekeeper and wagoner, with a swarm of urchins about her. They were all very natural to me thus.
Some one had brought out an electric battery, and the lumpish boys and slattern girls were shouting and laughing as they writhed with the current.
Their mother, in curl-papers, gave explicit directions for my guidance upward. "Is this where Mrs. McGinniss lives?" I inquired of the dropsical slattern who responded to my rap. "I'm her." Mrs. McGinniss's manner was aggressive.
But the very home life itself can be a teacher of dishonesty. Is it largely a matter of sham and pretense for the sake of social glory? Does it prefer a cheap veneer to a slowly acquired genuine article? Is the front appearance that of a dandy while the backyard looks like a slattern? Is the home striving for more than it deserves? Is it trying to get more out of life than it puts in?
She left nothing unsaid. Finally, she apologized for the plainness of her dress. "You must think me a slattern, Mr. Torridon, but I cannot help it. I have not the heart nor the means, now that my man is in prison, to do better." And her solemn eyes filled with tears.
That's right; a deep cut for luck. U-um. The nine of hearts is your wish and right beside it is the ace of hearts. That means your home, dearie the spirits don't lie, even when they're manifestin' themselves just through cards. They guide your hand when you shuffle and cut. Your wish is about the affections, ain't it, dearie?" The pretty slattern across the table nodded.
I have known people slattern away their character, without really polluting it; the consequence of which has been, that they have become innocently contemptible; their merit has been dimmed, their pretensions unregarded, and all their views defeated. Character must be kept bright, as well as clean. Content yourself with mediocrity in nothing.
The two women, one so stylish and the other by contrast piquantly a heavy slattern, hid nothing whatever from him, bestowing on him with perfect tranquillity the right to be there and to watch at his ease every mysterious transaction.... The most convincing proof that Christine was authentically young!
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