22/24 But I'll leave the house before I do it again." "So would I, John. It was downright mane imposition, so it was. Set a waiter to shaking carpets!" "I don't think much has been saved," remarked the waiter, "for Nancy has had a dollar a day ever since she has been here." "Indade!" "Yes; and besides that, Mrs.Sunderland has had to work like a dog herself. All this might have been saved, if she had hired a couple of women at sixty-two and a half cents a day for two or three days, and paid for having the carpets shaken; that's the way other people do. The house would have been set to rights in three or four days, and every thing going on like clockwork." "I heard no more. |