Husband, how soon do you calculate that we can be housekeeping in our own cabin?
The old lady rather liked the arrangement, as it would give her a chance to inspect the housekeeping of the minister's wife; and, watching Tom till he was well into town, she commenced her examinations.
When he came back from London he naturally went to it; it was his home; and Mrs. Knox did not at all like the addition he made to her housekeeping expenses: which could not be very much amongst the nine others to provide for.
It is as immaculate within as its presiding genius can make it, presenting a sharp contrast to the easy-going housekeeping of the mountain cabin.
While we werehousekeeping in Pasadena, Mr. Burroughs began writing on the Grand Canon.
A woman had to have the association of congenial people to keep her from falling into housekeeping dry-rot.
They were free-born American women, ignorant of many things regarding the finer kinds of housekeeping in most instances, but independent from birth and surroundings.
Nollekens's housekeeping was a model of parsimony.
By these gifts, his housekeeping expenses were reduced to fifteen-pence a day, and it was sinful extravagance if they reached two shillings.
She said last year when I was home that he was a regular screw, and that he only came on a visit to save his housekeeping bills.
Housekeeping was her forte, and she declared she would never sit down in comfort, till her store and linen cupboards were in perfect order.
It was after Agatha had done her housekeeping that, sitting round the fire, Gwen gave them full details of all they wished to know.
She became engrossed in housekeeping for several hours every morning, and was delighted to hear of a seamstress who could come in and work by the day.
She had a little farm; there was nobody left at home now but herself, and so she had broken up housekeeping for the winter.
I could see her business-like, small figure setting forth down the steep path, when she had a good conscience toward her housekeeping and the children were in order to be left.
I sold Joe Calvin's woman her first apple corer, and I started Ahab Wright up inhousekeeping by selling him a Peerless cooker.
So I broadens out and says, 'I sold Rhody Kollander her first patent rocker the day she came to town to begin housekeeping with.
Milly's mother, less hopeful by nature, had gradually succumbed under the perpetual tearing up of her thin roots, and finally faded away altogether in the light housekeeping phase of their existence in St. Louis.
Milly, after the housekeeping and her morning duties, walked up town for her daughter and spent most of the afternoons with her, as she had not much else to do.
That had been hot, and Milly found housekeeping throughout the year burdensome--and it may be added expensive.
Milly paid much more attention to the details of their simple housekeeping than she had ever cared to do for herself and Jack.
You see we pay only thirty dollars a month for this place, and I cover the housekeeping bills with another thirty or a little more.
Even the housekeeping bills for the year before had not been fully settled.
In one all the housekeeping was done by the cellaress, who bought such stores as were needed to supplement the produce of the home farm and provided the nuns with the whole of their food.
Yet this is what young women of the moneyed classes have done ever since it became the fashion to despise domesticity, to imagine that housekeeping was a pursuit fit only for women too stupid to do anything else.
The mistress of this house elects to have housekeepingmornings on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, though, of course, it is understood that she will visit the back premises on any other mornings if it is advisable to do so.
Even so, three housekeeping and two shopping days should suffice.
It had taken the greater portion of the money I had been making to get them comfortably settled at housekeepingand to buy necessary clothing for them.
As I had commenced housekeeping about the time I opened the billiard room, and had gone in debt for my furniture, I found myself in a sad plight.
That she might omit nothing, she wrote it all down together with her memoranda in her housekeeping book, and handed it each morning to Mme.
Do you know that she has taken up housekeepingin real earnest.
The neatness of all this careful housekeepingwould be delightful if it could be carried out with us, or if the servant would accept it.
The housekeeping at the Quirinal is excellent; a royal supper at a royal ball is something to remember.
The housekeeping was a matter of course, and the more so as a leg of mutton roast or boiled would be the beginning and the end of it.
For the bees are extremely cleanly housekeepers, with a keen eye for all fallen bits of wax, or bodies of dead bees, or any kind of dirt that might come from the housekeeping of so large a family.
Living things disturbed in their work, their play, their laying up of riches, their care of their children; little animate creatures revealed in all the intimacies of their housekeeping and daily life.
Whoever laid them must be crazy to start housekeeping at this time of year.
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