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DOMESTIC PURITY IMPUGNED.
“Have you got any rooms to let here, marm?” said
a little man to Mrs. Partington, who occupied half of a
house, the other half of which was to let, and to whom
was entrusted the care of answering the door-bell.
The rooms were shown.
“They are not large,” said the little man, depreciatingly.
“No, sir,” replied she, “they are not very ruminous;
but here are two little bed-rooms contagious that perhaps
you did n't see.”
He looked in, and, in a supercilious tone, muttered,
“Bugs!” implying want of cleanliness, — a reflection
on the purity of the premises in her charge!
There is a point, as she says, where patience ceases to
be virtuous, and she had found it. Indignation choked
her utterance; and the little man fortunately departed
before it found vent. It was great, the way in which
she slammed the door to after him, and ejaculated
“Bugs!” till the empty rooms in echoing it seemed full
of bugs. It was a sublime moral spectacle.
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