But it's of no consequence; the sooner I'm dead and gone, the better.

I've never wanted to live either, since your father went away." "I'll help you wring, mother." "Now it's all done?
Many thanks! But it would have shown a little forethought, if you, who have only been sitting up in the factory, had hurried yourself a little to help your mother, who's had to stand and work hard all the morning." "Thanks for the information, Mrs.Holman." It was Mrs.Andersen's servant, who had at last recovered her voice.

"But I think you won't need to trouble yourself any more about our washing.

It's much too plain and humble for such grand sentiments." She dropped a curtsey, and then added, as she vanished quickly out of the gate: "If only your soap-lye was half as sharp as your tongue!" It was always Mrs.Holman's strong point, and one on which she prided herself, that she was always hungering and thirsting after righteousness in this world--in others.

Inasmuch as part of this sentence also points inwards towards one's self, she was fortunate in finding her own doorstep well swept.