Beeton
returned
to cook muffins and make scathing remarks about
models, hussies, trollops, and the like, to her husband.
models, hussies, trollops, and the like, to her husband.
Kipling - Poems
This is like unfurnished lodgings.
How could you
let it go so? "
"How could I help it? Dust away. "
She dusted furiously, and in the midst of all the pother entered Mrs.
Beeton. Her husband on his return had explained the situation, winding
up with the peculiarly felicitous proverb, "Do unto others as you would
be done by. " She had descended to put into her place the person who
demanded muffins and an uncracked teapot as though she had a right to
both.
"Muffins ready yet? " said Bess, still dusting. She was no longer a drab
of the streets but a young lady who, thanks to Dick's check, had paid
her premium and was entitled to pull beer-handles with the best. Being
neatly dressed in black she did not hesitate to face Mrs. Beeton, and
there passed between the two women certain regards that Dick would have
appreciated. The situation adjusted itself by eye. Bessie had won, and
Mrs.
Beeton returned to cook muffins and make scathing remarks about
models, hussies, trollops, and the like, to her husband.
"There's nothing to be got of interfering with him, Liza," he said.
"Alf, you go along into the street to play. When he isn't crossed he's
as kindly as kind, but when he's crossed he's the devil and all. We took
too many little things out of his rooms since he was blind to be that
particular about what he does. They ain't no objects to a blind man, of
course, but if it was to come into court we'd get the sack. Yes, I did
introduce him to that girl because I'm a feelin' man myself. "
"Much too feelin'! " Mrs. Beeton slapped the muffins into the dish, and
thought of comely housemaids long since dismissed on suspicion.
"I ain't ashamed of it, and it isn't for us to judge him hard so long
as he pays quiet and regular as he do. I know how to manage young
gentlemen, you know how to cook for them, and what I says is, let each
stick to his own business and then there won't be any trouble. Take them
muffins down, Liza, and be sure you have no words with that young woman.
His lot is cruel hard, and if he's crossed he do swear worse than any
one I've ever served. "
"That's a little better," said Bessie, sitting down to the tea. "You
needn't wait, thank you, Mrs.
let it go so? "
"How could I help it? Dust away. "
She dusted furiously, and in the midst of all the pother entered Mrs.
Beeton. Her husband on his return had explained the situation, winding
up with the peculiarly felicitous proverb, "Do unto others as you would
be done by. " She had descended to put into her place the person who
demanded muffins and an uncracked teapot as though she had a right to
both.
"Muffins ready yet? " said Bess, still dusting. She was no longer a drab
of the streets but a young lady who, thanks to Dick's check, had paid
her premium and was entitled to pull beer-handles with the best. Being
neatly dressed in black she did not hesitate to face Mrs. Beeton, and
there passed between the two women certain regards that Dick would have
appreciated. The situation adjusted itself by eye. Bessie had won, and
Mrs.
Beeton returned to cook muffins and make scathing remarks about
models, hussies, trollops, and the like, to her husband.
"There's nothing to be got of interfering with him, Liza," he said.
"Alf, you go along into the street to play. When he isn't crossed he's
as kindly as kind, but when he's crossed he's the devil and all. We took
too many little things out of his rooms since he was blind to be that
particular about what he does. They ain't no objects to a blind man, of
course, but if it was to come into court we'd get the sack. Yes, I did
introduce him to that girl because I'm a feelin' man myself. "
"Much too feelin'! " Mrs. Beeton slapped the muffins into the dish, and
thought of comely housemaids long since dismissed on suspicion.
"I ain't ashamed of it, and it isn't for us to judge him hard so long
as he pays quiet and regular as he do. I know how to manage young
gentlemen, you know how to cook for them, and what I says is, let each
stick to his own business and then there won't be any trouble. Take them
muffins down, Liza, and be sure you have no words with that young woman.
His lot is cruel hard, and if he's crossed he do swear worse than any
one I've ever served. "
"That's a little better," said Bessie, sitting down to the tea. "You
needn't wait, thank you, Mrs.
