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As soon as the Mistress had left the house, Till and her daughter Nancy fell to and began to give her bedroom a thorough cleaning; pushed the bed out from the wall, and washed the closet floors. All the windows were opened, and the rugs before the wash-basin stand and the dressing-table were carried into the back yard and beaten.
After Nancy had pinned a clean antimacassar on the back of the wheel-chair and put the Mistress's slippers ready at the foot of it, her mother said they might as well "give the parlour a lick" before the carriage got back.