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is always mixed with passion, the one whom she 

 had loved? 



There were other reasons for so thinking. 

 What of those days when she showed a zest for 

 house-cleaning and set her servants by the ears? 

 Solomon would have detailed his administrative 

 duties. Sheba, on the contrary, was a good 

 housewife, trained in domesticity. She must 

 know herself how everything was run. Seated 

 on the carpet sweeper, she went back and forth 

 across the floors, her eye vigilant for pins or 

 thread. And when apparently the rooms were 

 cleaned, she would run her beak along the floor 

 cracks until she had left a narrow strip of lint 

 as her reminder of our laxity with dust. She 

 lowered herself to supervise the scrubbing and 

 was never happier than when tagging after brush 

 and pail. Such times, too, as she penterated to 

 the kitchen, she was in and out of everything. 

 Often she inspected all the ironing and in her 

 high-handed fashion cast upon the floor a gar- 

 ment not txirned out to the queen's taste. Or 

 she sat upon a gas fixture, the very place for out- 

 look, and surveyed the baking, frying, scorning 



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