[Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper by T. S. Arthur]@TWC D-Link bookTrials and Confessions of a Housekeeper CHAPTER XVI 24/24
"When next we clean house, I will take care that it shall be done by extra help altogether." "Do, so by all means, Mrs.Sunderland.Let there be, if possible, two paint-cleaners and scrubbers in every room, that the work may all be done in a day instead of a week.
Take my word for it, the cost will be less; or, if double, I will cheerfully pay it for the sake of seeing 'order from chaos rise' more quickly than is wont under the ordinary system of doing things." My wife did not just like this speech, I could see, but she bit her lips and kept silent. In a week we were without a cook again; and months passed before we were in any thing like domestic comfort.
At last my wife was fortunate enough to get Ann and Hannah back again, and then the old pleasant order of things was restored.
I rather think that we shall have a different state of things at next house-cleaning time.
I certainly hope so..
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