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`` Look at them thrash , now ! '' The old sweeping-women were going downstairs with their brooms . It was almost twelve o'clock , and like the old dray-horses in the mill yard they slackened work in good season for the noonday bell . Three gay young French girls ran downstairs past them ; they were let out for the afternoon and were hurrying home to dress and catch the 12:40 train to the next large town . `` That little one is Meshell 's daughter ; she 's a nice child too , very quiet , and has got more Christian tark than most , '' said Mrs. Kilpatrick . `` They live overhead o ' me . There 's nine o ' themselves in the two rooms ; two does be boarders . ''